robunkshough

Yola

Etymology

A nasal form from Middle English robuck (“roe deer”) and Middle English schough (“forest”). Compare also kink (“to kick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɾɔːbʊŋkˈʃɔːɡ/

Noun

robunkshough

1. A stout, stubborn person.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 65