Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Shake-buckler
subs. phr. (old).—A swash-buckler; a bully.
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d. 1567. T. BECON, The Catechism with Other Pieces (1844), 355. Such Sim SHAKE-BUCKLERS, as in their young years fall into serving, and in their old years fall into beggary.
