buckhorse
English
editEtymology
editAfter a celebrated "bruiser" of the same name, said to have allowed anybody to strike him on the side of the face for a small sum of money.
Noun
editbuckhorse (plural buckhorses)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A smart blow or box on the ear.
- 1870, George Musgrave Musgrave, A Ramble Into Brittany (volume 1, page 80)
- […] the hands of the same exalted young lady being also well calculated to give any man such a 'buckhorse' as would have sent him whirling round the presence-chamber […]
- 1870, George Musgrave Musgrave, A Ramble Into Brittany (volume 1, page 80)
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary