young buck
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An adventurous or high-spirited young man.
Example Sentences
- "Thus young Pen, the only son of an estated country gentleman, with a good allowance, and a gentlemanlike bearing and person, looked to be a lad of much more consequence than he was really; and was held by the Oxbridge authorities, tradesmen, and undergraduates, as quite a young buck and member of the aristocracy."
- "Devereux, indeed, being a fast man, with such acres as he inherited, which certainly did not reach a thousand, mortgaged pretty smartly, and with as much personal debt beside, of the fashionable and refined sort, as became a young buck of bright though doubtful expectations—and if the truth must be owned, sometimes pretty nearly pushed into a corner—was beholden, not only for his fun, but occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benovolent^([sic]) doles."
- "But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana."
- "Face it, Bernie, you're seventy-four years old ... you can't expect to be able to build a cart train as long as the young bucks."