"buckshee" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Alteration of baksheesh.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buckshees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "buckshee (plural buckshees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Richard Gordon, Doctor on Toast, page 11",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gift or bribe."
      ],
      "id": "en-buckshee-en-noun-E9chbT-V",
      "links": [
        [
          "bribe",
          "bribe"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An extra portion, ration etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-buckshee-en-noun-TAO4TQMY",
      "links": [
        [
          "extra",
          "extra"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "28 5 4 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Gavin McLean, Penguin Book Of New Zealanders At War",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Percy F. Westerman, A Lively Bit of the Front",
          "text": "Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, page 345",
          "text": "As they went down the sap, 'Frank led the way...explaining to all and sundry \"Old Kips got a buckshee\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wound that is relatively minor but sufficient to get a soldier sent away from the front to the hospital."
      ],
      "id": "en-buckshee-en-noun-WP-5CX9L"
    }
  ],
  "word": "buckshee"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Alteration of baksheesh.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "buckshee (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 35",
          "text": "However, you come along about nine o'clock. There's some buckshee rum.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extra, spare."
      ],
      "id": "en-buckshee-en-adj-6gG-ipE0",
      "links": [
        [
          "Extra",
          "extra"
        ],
        [
          "spare",
          "spare"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Extra, spare."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "buckshee"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Alteration of baksheesh.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buckshees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "buckshee (plural buckshees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Richard Gordon, Doctor on Toast, page 11",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gift or bribe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bribe",
          "bribe"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An extra portion, ration etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extra",
          "extra"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Gavin McLean, Penguin Book Of New Zealanders At War",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Percy F. Westerman, A Lively Bit of the Front",
          "text": "Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, page 345",
          "text": "As they went down the sap, 'Frank led the way...explaining to all and sundry \"Old Kips got a buckshee\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wound that is relatively minor but sufficient to get a soldier sent away from the front to the hospital."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "buckshee"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Alteration of baksheesh.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "buckshee (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 35",
          "text": "However, you come along about nine o'clock. There's some buckshee rum.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extra, spare."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Extra",
          "extra"
        ],
        [
          "spare",
          "spare"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Extra, spare."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "buckshee"
}