Talk:bucky

RFV discussion: October 2022

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bucky

British slang for a gun (possibly MLE?). The cited book is actually quoting the BBC News website from 21 October 2011, and is a mention, not a usage. I can't easily find any uses, even in a Web search. Equinox ◑ 15:07, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

There are quite a few song lyric results if you search for ‘bucky’ at genius.com and over 10 tweets clearly using the word in this sense in the last year, admittedly not an overwhelming amount. There are also a handful of cases where it appears an alternative spelling (misspelling?) for ‘buckie’, which is a slang term for Buckfast Tonic Wine in Britain and Ireland but especially Scotland where it is a favourite drink of the local neds (we’re currently missing this at buckie). Overlordnat1 (talk) 18:43, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

We have the wine at Buckie, capital B. Equinox ◑ 18:44, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Oops! I’ll some be adding some cites at Citations:bucky from the song lyrics I find though. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 19:35, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Cited. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 17:14, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

By the way it seems clear to me that the slang term comes from our current sense 10 of the noun buck (buckshot) but that the medical term comes from a doctor’s surname, so if we keep this we should split the etymology into etymology 1 and etymology 2 (we currently have both under an unspecified etymology 1). --Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:25, 4 October 2022 (UTC)