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48 BUCK I' T NEUCKS—BUFF
"Bucca, bucca, quot sunt hie?'"—Petron. Arbitri Satirce, by Buchler, p. 84 (other readings are buccce or bucco)"—Primitive Culture, i. 67.
Buck i' t' Neucks
A rude game amongst boys.—Dickinsons Cumberland Glossary.
Buckerels
" A kind of play used by boys in London streets in Henry VIII.'s time, now disused, and I think forgot" (Blount's Glosso-graphia, p. 95). Hall mentions this game, temp. Henry VIII., f. 91.
Buckey-how
For this the boys divide into sides. One " stops at home," the other goes off to a certain distance agreed on beforehand and shouts " Buckey-how." The boys " at home " then give chase, and when they succeed in catching an adversary, they bring him home, and there he stays until all on his side are caught, when they in turn become the chasers.—Cornwall (Folk-lore Journal, v. 60).
Buff
1st player, thumping the floor with a stick : "Knock, knock!"
2nd ditto: " Who's there ? "
1st: "Buff."
2nd: "What says Buff?"
1st: " Buff says Buff to all his men,
And I say Buff to you again ! " 2nd : " Methinks Buff smiles ? " 1st: " Buff neither laughs nor smiles,
But looks in your face
With a comical grace,
And delivers the staff to you again " (handing it over). —Shropshire (Burne's Shropshire Folk-loi'e, p. 526).
Same verses as in Shropshire, except the last, which runs as follows:— |
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