Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An unmannerly lout; a clown.

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Examples

  • There was also another hawbuck who swore to the sheep, and was witness to the assault; so that, in fact, the evidence was legally complete.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

  • "No country hawbuck is going to knock out a man with such a record."

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • "Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly.

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • "Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly.

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • "No country hawbuck is going to knock out a man with such a record."

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • Warned by his misadventure, the heavier man no longer tried to win the battle at a rush, nor to beat down an accomplished boxer as he would a country hawbuck at a village fair.

    The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • "Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly.

    Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • "No country hawbuck is going to knock out a man with such a record."

    Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Clementi's Sonatinas, the child had made a rash adventure upon life in the company of a half-bred hawbuck; and she was already not only regretting it, but expressing her regret with point and pungency.

    St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • -- Well, he hires a young half-witted hawbuck for a servant, who didn't clean his boots to his liking, so he began reading the Riot Act one day, and concluded by saying, 'I'm blowed if I couldn't clean them better myself with a little pump-water.'

    Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

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  • Also hawbaw in the Lincolnshire dialect.

    October 22, 2012

  • The Backwoods Humorist

    His patter full of "pshaw!" and "aw-shucks,"

    His rustical tales are sure to draw yucks.

    But he always outwits

    The city-bred twits

    To confirm the illusions of paying hawbucks.

    January 8, 2015