roebuck
pronunciation
How to pronounce roebuck in British English:
UK ['rəʊbʌk]
How to pronounce roebuck in American English:
US ['roʊbʌk]
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- Noun:
- male roe deer
Word Origin
- roebuck (n.)
- c. 1200, from roe (n.2) + buck (n.1). Similar formation in Dutch reebok, German Rehbock, Danish raabuck.
Example
- 1. Sears roebuck and montgomery ward catalogs were read more than any book other than the bible .
- 2. This a.c. roebuck & company later became sears , roebuck and company and in 1893 moved to chicago .
- 3. Thou shalt eat it within thy gates : the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike , as the roebuck , and as the hart .
- 4. All his colleagues assumed roebuck 's furtive , solitary existence meant he was gay but too repressed to admit it .
- 5. Within a year he had hired alvah c. roebuck as a watch repairman and moved his business to chicago .