buckhorse

== English == === Etymology === After a celebrated "bruiser" of the same name, said to have allowed anybody to strike him on the side of the face for a small sum of money. === Noun === buckhorse (plural buckhorses) (UK, slang, obsolete) A smart blow or box on the ear. 1870, George Musgrave Musgrave, A Ramble Into Brittany (volume 1, page 80) […] the hands of the same exalted young lady being also well calculated to give any man such a 'buckhorse' as would have sent him whirling round the presence-chamber […] ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary