Buckling
/ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/ adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of fastening a buckle.
- 2 A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
"1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715, If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat."
- 3 Smoked herring.
- 4 A folding into hills and valleys.
- 5 The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
"Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of buckle form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Wavy; curly, as hair.
Example
More examples"The leader of the new republic is buckling under political pressures."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
Etymology 2
From buck + -ling.
Etymology 3
From German Bückling or Swedish böckling. Cognate with Middle High German bockinc and Middle Dutch bocking (itself from bok (“buck”), referencing the foul smell).