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Definition: BUCKING |
BUCKINGNoun1. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores. 2. A washing. 3. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Buck |
Date "BUCKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Crosswords: BUCKING |
| English words defined with "BUCKING": buck, Bucker, Bucking iron. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BUCKING": FITTER HELPER ♦ plate-worker helper, POLEYARD SUPERVISOR, powersaw supervisor ♦ ranch rider, rivet bucker, rivet catcher, rivet sticker, RIVETER HELPER ♦ saw boss, SUPERVISOR, FELLING-BUCKING, SUPERVISOR, LOGGING ♦ timber supervisor ♦ welder-fitter helper ♦ yarding supervisor. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I'll be bucking at the county fair (Amarillo By Morning; performing artist: George Strait) Bucking with nobody (U.N.I.T.Y.; performing artist: Queen Latifah) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bucking the Truth (1926) A Bucking Broncho (1899) Bucking Broncho (1894) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Logger bucking a tree. Credit: Unknown. |  | Rabbit and bucking horse or mule. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bucking a head wind. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | President Lyndon Johnson riding bucking inflation horse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tomcats in a football helmet riding a bucking "Pony Express" horse. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Topeka, Kansas. Bucking rivets on a freight car which is being rebuilt in the shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Riding a bucking horse, rodeo, Miles City, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Bucking Bronco." Ned Coy, a famous Dakota cowboy, starts out for the cattle round-up with his pet "Boy Dick.". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Uncle George Washington Bings. "Well, the horse jumped over the sun, hey, he's bucking us off!". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For example, on-board computer measurement systems allow bucking the logs to precise specifications outlined by the sawmills. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BUCKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "BUCKING" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.71% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.11% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BUCKING": bucking bronco ♦ Bucking iron ♦ Bucking kier ♦ Bucking stool. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bucking horse | 95 | bronco bucking picture | 3 |
bucking bull | 79 | bucking coil | 3 |
bucking bronco | 30 | bar beaver bucking | 3 |
bucking | 25 | bucking bull picture | 3 |
bucking bull sale | 15 | bucking roll | 3 |
bucking chute | 14 | berger bucking bull | 3 |
bucking machine | 12 | bucking horse problem | 3 |
barrel bucking horse | 9 | bucking horse photo | 2 |
bucking horse picture | 6 | bucking horse training | 2 |
bucking horse sale | 5 | bucking magnet | 2 |
bucking bull rodeo | 5 | bucking stock | 2 |
bucking bar | 4 | bucking hip his | 2 |
beaver bucking | 4 | bucking horse stop | 2 |
bucking bull semen | 4 | barrel bucking | 2 |
bronco bucking bull | 4 | bucking chute rodeo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BUCKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 顽抗 (Bucked). (various references) | |
Danish | bukken, afkortning (cross cutting, cutting up, slashing, truncation). (various references) | |
Dutch | in stukken zagen (cutting up). (various references) | |
French | tronçonnage, cheval revêche, cabrade. (various references) | |
German | bockend, Bocken (act up, buck, jib, play up, refuse), Querschneiden des Holzes (cutting up), Einschneiden des Holzes (cutting up). (various references) | |
Greek | ανόρθωση (recovery, rectification), τεμαχισμός (cutting up, fragmentation, shearing, slicing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bakugrás (caper, leapfrog, leap-frog). (various references) | |
Italian | troncatura (cutting up), taglio trasversale (cutting, cutting up), taglio di traverso (cutting up), segatura trasversale (cutting up), riduzione in tronconi (cutting up). (various references) | |
Korean | 완강하게 항. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corte transversal do tronco (cutting up). (various references) | |
Russian | щелочение, противодействовать компенсирующий. (various references) | |
Spanish | tronzado de la madera (cutting up), corte transversal (cross section). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BUCKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bucci, Buccinu, Buchinger, Bucin, busking, ucking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BUCKING" (pronounced bu"king) |
| 4 | -u" k i ng | chucking, clucking, ducking, Lucking, mucking, plucking, shucking, sucking, trucking, tucking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-g-i-k-n-u" | |
-1 letter: cubing. | |
-2 letters: cuing. | |
-3 letters: buck, bung, bunk, gink, guck, gunk, king, nick, unci. | |
-4 letters: big, bin, bug, bun, cig, cub, gib, gin, gnu, gun, ick, ink, kin, nib, nub. | |
-5 letters: bi, in, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-g-i-k-n-u" | |
+1 letter: buckling. | |
+2 letters: bucketing. | |
+3 letters: bucklering, buckraming, unblocking, unbuckling. | |
+4 letters: backhauling, bivouacking, parbuckling. | |
+5 letters: blockbusting, bloodsucking, bluestocking, bushwhacking, thumbtacking. | |
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