Sc. Also 6 bukie. [Derivation unknown; cf. L. buccinum whelk. Perhaps sense 2 is a distinct word: ? f. BUCK sb.1]
1. The whorled shell of any mollusk; e.g., whelk.
[c. 1505. W. Dunbar, Tua Mar. Wom. & Wedo, 276. And with a bukky in my cheik bo on him behind.]
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., 57. In the space of xii. houris thay grow in fair cokilis or bukies.
1638. H. Adamson, Muse’s Threnodie, 2 (Jam.). Triton, his trumpet of a Buckie Propin’d to him, was large and luckie.
1814. Scott, Diary, in Lockhart (1839), IV. 260. They gather shells on the shore, called Johnnie Groat’s buckies.
1845. Petrie, Eccl. Archit. Irel., 94. Oyster shells, buckies or sea-shells.
2. A perverse or refractory person.
1719. Ramsay, Ep. Lt. Hamilton, iii. Gin ony sourmou’d girning bucky Ca’ me conceity keckling chucky.
1791. Burns, Ep. to J. Maxwell, iii. If envious buckies view wi’ sorrow Thy lengthen’d days.
1814. Scott, Wav., III. 133 (Jam.). ‘It was that deevil’s buckie, Callum Beg.’
