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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Buckie, Bukky, n. Also: bukkie, bukie. [Of obscure origin.] The shell of a whelk or other mollusc. Also fig. a protuberance in the cheek of a person.(1) c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 276.
Weil couth I … with a bukky [M. bukkie] in my cheik bo on him behind 1622 Glasgow Weavers 68.
I sall skinne thy chaftes, and tack ane buckie afe thy cheike 1640 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 166.
Thy mother hes bein tailing tealls of me, but I sall put a buckie in her scheek for that, that all hir kinne sall never get out(2) 1596 Dalr. I. 24/14.
In fresh water buckies … na lesse than in salt water buckies growis the margarite Ib. 57/20.
In the space of xii. houris thay grow in fair cokilis or bukies 1638 Adamson Muse's Thren. 2.
Triton, his trumpet of a buckie, Propin'd to him, was large and luckie 1683 Coll. Aberd. & B. 100.
Of buckies or wilks we have but one kind, or two at mostattrib. 1592 Edinb. Test. XXV. 25.
Ane gros & ane string of buckie buttones