hawbuck
English
Noun
hawbuck (plural hawbucks)
- (obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.
- 1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud (page 93)
- In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.
- 1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud (page 93)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary