Buck
.A dandy. (See below.)
“A most tremendous buck he was, as he sat there serene, in state, driving his greys.”—Thackeray: Vanity Fair, chap. vi.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.