Buck

Morpheme

Buck

Type

free base

Denotation

male animal, man; bend, buckle, spring, lurch, resist

Etymology

Middle English bukke, bucke, buc; Old English buc, bucc, bucca

Evidence

blackbuck, buck, buckberry, buckboard, buckbrush, bucked, buckeen, bucker, buckhorn, buckhound, bucking, buckish, buckism, buckjumper, bucko, bucks, bucksaw, buckshot, buckskin, buckskinned, bucksome, bucksow, buckstay, bucktail, buckteeth, buckthorn, bucktooth, bucktoothed, bushbuck, crossbuck, humbucker, killbuck, prongbuck, reedbuck, roebuck, sawbuck

Notes

buck and puck are doublets
buckaroo and vaquero are doublets
roebuck and rhebok are doublets

Doublet

Puck

See Also

Bok, Puck

Homographs

Buck