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buckling¹

  • /ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/

Where it comes from

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

noun bucklings

  1. The act of fastening a buckle.
  2. A folding into hills and valleys.
  3. The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing). Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.

adjective more buckling · most buckling

  1. Wavy; curly, as hair.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of buckle

buckling²

  • /ˈbʌk.lɪŋ/

Rhymes with -ʌklɪŋ

noun 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.

buckling³

Where it comes from

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 bucklings

  1. Smoked herring.

Translations

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noun kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress

Françaisflambage
DeutschKnicken, Knick (kink), Knickung, Stauchung, Knickbildung (kinking), Verbiegen

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@misc{buckling_2026,
  title = {buckling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buckling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}