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buckshee
adjective- free, spare, extra UK, 1916
- Don’t tell me–you came for a buckshee dinner. I still owe you that favor, after all. — Elizabeth Young, Asking for Trouble, p. 354, 2001
- worthless CANADA
- To a Canadian airman or air woman, “buckshee” is an adjective meaning northing or worthless. From backsheesh, a gift or a bribe. “We speak of a buckshee repair, or a buckshee plan”. — Tom Langeste, Words on the Wing, p. 40, 1995
- of a local non-commissioned officer, with rank but no additional pay AUSTRALIA
- [Y]ou should have gone in for a commission but you were too idle. If you’d done that they would have made you a buckshee one-pipper [a second lieutenant][.] — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 85, 1959
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