different between muckling vs buckling

English

Verb

muckling

1. present participle of muckle

English

Etymology 1

From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k.?l.??/

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. The act of fastening a buckle.
2. (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
3. The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.

Adjective

buckling (comparative more buckling, superlative most buckling)

1. Wavy; curly, as hair.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

References

buckling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Verb

buckling

1. present participle of buckle

Etymology 2

buck +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k.l??/
• Rhymes: -?kl??
• Hyphenation: buck?ling

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
   • 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, ?ISBN, page 715,

     If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.

   • 1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine,^[2] Blackwell Publishing, ?ISBN, page 429,

     The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.

   • 1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West, Houghton Mifflin Books, ?ISBN, page 161,

     I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.

Usage notes

• (young male goat): Not all sources agree on the exact age range for which this term applies; for example, one source applies it to kids as young as six months.

Etymology 3

From German Bückling or Swedish böckling. Cognate with Middle High German bockinc and Middle Dutch bocking (itself from bok (“buck”), referencing the foul smell).

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. Smoked herring.

Coordinate terms

• bloater
• kipper

Translations

See also

• stockfish

References

• van Veen, P.A.F.; van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997) Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden (in Dutch), Utrecht; Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie, ?ISBN
• W. Martin; G[uy] A. J. Tops, et al. (1998) Van Dale Groot Woordenboek Engels–Nederlands [Van Dale Great Dictionary, English–Dutch], volume I, 3rd edition, Utrecht; Antwerp: Van Dale Lexicografie, ?ISBN.