(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
(n.) A male Indian or negro.
(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
(v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
(v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
(n.) The beech tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
(2) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
(3) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
(4) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
(6) However, our airports are unable to serve the young bucks that are set to drive the world forward.
(7) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
(8) He said to me that he would not grow old, both in discussions of his paper on senescence ("I feel bucked when anyone refers to that paper") and discussions touching on personal safety.
(9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
(10) The subsequent post-rut profiles of treated bucks were characterized by lower basal plasma LH concentrations, and reduced frequency and amplitude of plasma testosterone surges.
(11) Sexual behavior of the buck, onset of puberty, techniques for semen collection and evaluation, the production of teaser animals, and methods of castration are also discussed.
(12) People moved in who wanted to make a buck out of it all, especially the drugs.
(13) As Buck is not challenging his guilt, the most he could hope for is life without parole, said Radelet.
(14) There’s just inertia and a lack of looking into ourselves to find the solutions.” Recently, Buck had told her brother about fuel money for ambulances being diverted.
(15) The Harris County district court is now considering whether or not to grant Buck a new sentencing hearing.
(16) As Fox caller Joe Buck just said to new viewers "we know where you've been"."
(17) Pratchett left school one year into his A-levels, after he was offered a job on the local paper, the Bucks Free Press , aged 17.
(18) But the buck does not stop with the commission, and it is not an invention of the US trade deal.
(19) It is concluded that Buck screw fixation is a safe and reliable method of treatment for painful Grade I spondylolisthesis due to isthmic spondylolysis in the young active adult with a low complication rate.
(20) Bevan was equally unimpressed and told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: "The buck stops with Alan.
Yuck
Definition:
(v. i.) To itch.
(v. t.) To scratch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, Meyer's visceral reaction drove home the extent to which these posthuman technologies provoke visions of dystopian futures or what Miah pithily calls "the yuck factor".
(2) "In some ways, in vitro meat produced in a clean, pristine laboratory may have less of a yuck factor than what goes on in an abattoir."
(3) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
(4) Second, the yuck factor: isn't it just beyond tasteful (no pun intended) for a woman to put her nipple into another woman's baby's mouth?
(5) Given this natural aversion to human waste, it takes rigorous research, careful implementation and skillful social marketing to overcome the ‘yuck’ factor,” says Kramer.
(6) No, yuck, we don’t need this, and most people aren’t asking for it.
(7) He said the bureau was not expecting any storms but there was an increased chance on Friday and Saturday, days which he said would feel particularly “yuck”.
(8) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
(9) Nile Rodgers of the funk band Chic tweeted: "Lou Reed, RIP I did the Jools Holland show with him last year and we yucked it up.
(10) When Collins asked why Clarke decided to run the agenda-setting story of a young actor suffering from acne, Clarke replied: "Well, we all just looked at the picture and went 'Yuck'.
(11) Many insect species are found on, in or around waste, and they’re commonly associated with dirt, decay and disease, all of which can significantly up the yuck factor.
(12) Asked why he ran a story about a celebrity's acne, he replied, "Well, we all just looked at the picture and went 'Yuck'.
(13) That name may not be quite as catchy as "yum" or "yuck", admittedly, but it does provide a genetic explanation for why people either love or loathe brussels sprouts.
(14) Parts of this area have been gentrifying for decades, but during the branch’s first month, someone scrawled “Yuck” on its windows.
(15) One of the things that's surprising when you go on telly a lot is that often the on-camera "talent" (yuck!)
(16) Hall Pass (3) held as its central thesis the idea that women are inherently disgusting; I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry was two dozen soap-dropping gags masquerading as comedy; and it's hard to imagine that The Hangover Part II's Thailand setting was chosen for any reason other than its capacity for transsexual yucks.
(17) Drenge, who are currently taking to the stage at Roskilde festival in Denmark and are therefore unable to comment on today's seismic events, have enjoyed underground acclaim with tracks like I Wanna Break You In Half and People In Love Make Me Feel Yuck .
(18) Still, for someone who once described Chow as "Lucifer in a good v evil Wagner meta-play" , the dumb yucks of The Hangover franchise must have started to wear.
(19) A Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson predicted the weather in Queensland on Friday and Saturday would be particularly “yuck”.