An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Teut. buck-en, to bow, to bend; as this expresses the twisted form of the shell.

2. A perverse or refractory person is denominated a thrawn buckie, and sometimes, in still harsher language, a Deil's buckie, S.
Ramsay.

Buckie Ingram, that species of crab denominated Cancer bernardus, Newhaven.

Buckie Prins, A periwinkle; Turbo terebra, Linn. Also called Water-spouts, Loth.

To BUCKLE, v. a. To join two persons in marriage; used in a low or ludicrous sense, S.
Macneill.

Buckle-the-beggars, s. One who marries others in a clandestine and disorderly manner, S.

BUCKTOOTH, s. Any tooth that juts out from the rest, S.

Sibb. derives this from [Boks], q. v. Perhaps allied to Su. G. bok, rostrum.

BUD, s. A gift; generally one that is meant as a bribe.
Acts Ja. I.

C. B. budd, Corn. bud, profit, emolument. Or shall we view it as formed from A. S. bude, obtulit, q. the bribe that has been offered?