rushbuckler
English
Etymology
rush + buckler?
Noun
rushbuckler (plural rushbucklers)
- (obsolete, nonce word) A bullying and violent person.
- Robynson (More's Utopia)
- That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers.
- Robynson (More's Utopia)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rushbuckler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)