Etymograph

English

gunbuck

Compound of gun + buck.

A compound of gun + buck

Middle English gunne

English gun

Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- ‘buck, he-goat’

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Proto-Germanic *bukkô

Proto-West Germanic *bukkō

Old English bucca ‘he-goat, a buck’

Middle English bukke ‘male goat’

English buck

Today it means

verb To hit someone in the head with a pistol; to pistol-whip.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / gunbuck