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English
Adjective
wild as a Tuckernuck steer (not comparable)
- (rare, US, simile) Wild, reckless, harum-scarum.
1939, Enid Johnson, Anne Merriman Peck, Ho for Californy!:“Sounds wild as a Tuckernuck steer,” he observed. “What brings Peleg here now, Sister Abby? Thee said his last letter told thee of his fine new job ..."
1942, Elizabeth Hollister Frost, This side of land: an island epic, page 89:[…] and went hand over hand, a knife in his teeth — wild as a Tuckernuck steer, Fred was — out the line, cut away the lashings, […]
1961, Danger to windward, page 25:"Davy was born as wild as a Tuckernuck steer and time ain't chastened him none."
2007, Michael Hite, The Last Boat, →ISBN, page 2:The shock of the frigid sea made my nerves wild as a Tuckernuck steer. I felt freeze-dried as the icy cold electrified my vitals.
References
- William Francis Macy, Roland B. Hussey (1916) The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and Sayings of the People of the Town and Island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, page 151: “"Wild as a Tuckernuck Steer"—Wild, harum-scarum. Many beef cattle were formerly raised on Tuckernuck, and their antics, when brought into the gay metropolis of Nantucket town, probably gave rise to this expression.”