Meaning of buckshee | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gift or bribe.
2. An extra portion, ration etc.
3. A minor wound that necessitates the evacuation of a soldier from the combat zone for medical treatment.
   slang
4. Alternative spelling of bukshi (“paymaster”).
   alt-of, alternative

Examples

“Being a literary gent certainly has its advantages, such as not needing to shave before starting work in the mornings and all the literary luncheons sitting at the top table, which has the flowers and the buckshee booze.”

“Clearly the preferred wound, it ranked in seriousness between a 'buckshee' or 'baksheesh', a slight wound that merely took a man out of the line for a short time, and a 'N.Z. smack', which meant being invalided back to New Zealand, usually disabled for life.”

“Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.”

“As they went down the sap, 'Frank led the way...explaining to all and sundry "Old Kips got a buckshee".”

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