buckjumping
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The action (of a horse) of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.
Australian usage; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But, after a little preliminary buckjumping, Pyrrhus falsified his keeper′s prediction by behaving well and obediently."
- "The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping, — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman."
- "“How well you ride, Mr. McIntyre!” said Miss Webster in the course of the dinner. “I must confess I like to see a bit of good buckjumping.” Duncan smiled. “I nearly came to grief under that low brigalow though,” he said."