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English
Etymology
Related to baksheesh.
Noun
buckshee (plural buckshees)
- A gift or bribe.
2008, Richard Gordon, Doctor on Toast, →ISBN, page 11:Being a literary gent certainly has its advantages, such as not needing to shave before starting work in the mornings and all the literary luncheons sitting at the top table, which has the flowers and the buckshee booze.
- An extra portion, ration etc.
- A wound that is relatively minor but sufficient to get a soldier sent away from the front to the hospital.
2009, Gavin McLean, Penguin Book Of New Zealanders At War, →ISBN:Clearly the preferred wound, it ranked in seriousness between a 'buckshee' or 'baksheesh', a slight wound that merely took a man out of the line for a short time, and a 'N.Z. smack', which meant being invalided back to New Zealand, usually disabled for life.
2013, Percy F. Westerman, A Lively Bit of the Front, →ISBN:Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.
2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 345:As they went down the sap, 'Frank led the way...explaining to all and sundry "Old Kips got a buckshee".
- Alternative form of bukshi (“paymaster”)
Adjective
buckshee (not comparable)
- (slang) Extra, spare.
1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 35:However, you come along about nine o'clock. There's some buckshee rum.