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plural buckshees
A gift or bribe. quotations examples
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.
2008, Richard Gordon, Doctor on Toast, page 11
An extra portion, ration etc. examples
A wound that is relatively minor but sufficient to get a soldier sent away from the front to the hospital. quotations examples
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.
2009, Gavin McLean, Penguin Book Of New Zealanders At War
Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.
2013, Percy F. Westerman, A Lively Bit of the Front
As they went down the sap, 'Frank led the way...explaining to all and sundry "Old Kips got a buckshee".
2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, page 345
not comparable
(slang) Extra, spare. quotations
However, you come along about nine o'clock. There's some buckshee rum.
1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 35