| 词汇 | buckhorse |
| 词源 | buckhorse. If you gave him a few shillings, the English fighter John Smith, who went by the ring name of Buckhorse, would let you punch him on the side of the head as hard as you could. The well-known boxer saw his nickname become slang for “a punch or a blow” beginning about 1850; that is, if he saw any- thing but stars after a while. |
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