Buckism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being a young buck; adventurous high spirits. archaic, uncountable

    "His mode of dissipating time, and defying the statutes to which he had sworn obedience, was in the true style of university buckism."

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"His mode of dissipating time, and defying the statutes to which he had sworn obedience, was in the true style of university buckism."

Etymology

From buck + -ism.

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