hawbuck

English

Noun

hawbuck (plural hawbucks)

  1. (obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.
    • 1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud, page 93:
      In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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