buckhorse

English

Etymology

After 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

buckhorse (plural buckhorses)

1. (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 […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary