buckism

noun

buckism

noun

Etymology From buck + -ism.

1

Archaic The quality of being a young buck; adventurous high spirits.

  • His mode of dissipating time, and defying the statutes to which he had sworn obedience, was in the true style of university buckism.1811, The Scourge; or Monthly expositor, of imposture and folly, page 91:

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