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BUCK, v. to overcome, to beat.
 * ' O kno Jack's a rum stick, but o think he'll be buck ' d this toime. ' —Bywater, 47. Of a heavy load it is said that it will give the horse a bucking before he gets home.

BUCKA, sb. a thick piece of bread on which butter is generally spread with the thumb.

BUCKA HILL, near the Peacock Inn, between Sheffield and Baslow. O. M.   A.S. bucca, a he-goat?

BUCKED-UP, smartly dressed.

BUCKSWANGING, sb. a punishment used by grinders and other workmen for idleness, drunkenness, &c. The offender is jostled against a thorn hedge or a wall. It requires four men to do this, two to hold the offender's arms and two to hold his legs. Grinders generally buckswang a man against the wall of the grinding wheel.
 * A man was lately tied to a hand-cart, wheeled through the streets, and beaten with straps. He was said to have been buck-swanged.

BUDGE, v. to move or shift.
 * ' Come, my lad, budge '

BUFF, sb. a child's game.
 * A number of children sit in a row on a form. One of them stands out and is called Buff. Buff has a stick, and coming opposite to the first child he raps on the floor several times. The child says, ' Who ' s there? ' The answer is ' Buff, ' which is spoken in a gruff voice. ' ' What says Buff? ' the child asks. Buff replies:—
 * ' Buff says "Buff" to all his men,
 * And I say "Buff" to you again. '
 * Then the child says in a mild voice:—
 * ' Methinks Buff smiles. '
 * Buff replies:—
 * ' Buff neither laughs nor smiles;
 * But shows his face
 * With a comely grace,
 * And leaves his staff at the very next place. '
 * If the child fails to make Buff laugh, he takes the staff and plays Buff.

BUFF, sb. a wheel covered with buff leather on which the horn handles of knives were polished by the cutlers with Trent sand and rotten stone. Hunter's MS.

BUFF, sb. the naked skin.
 * ' But Joe was strip ' d unto his buff. '
 * Mather's Songs, 9.
 * See CUDDLE-ME-BUFF.