Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An unmannerly lout; a clown.
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Examples
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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
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"No country hawbuck is going to knock out a man with such a record."
Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896
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"Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly.
Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896
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"Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly.
Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896
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"No country hawbuck is going to knock out a man with such a record."
Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896
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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
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"Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly.
Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"No country hawbuck is going to knock out a man with such a record."
Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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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
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-- 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
hernesheir commented on the word hawbuck
Also hawbaw in the Lincolnshire dialect.
October 22, 2012
qms commented on the word hawbuck
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