robunkshough

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English robuck (“roo deer”) and Middle English schough. Original c was misspelled, compare kink (“to kick”). See also quiel laaune (“a smart lively fellow”).

Noun

robunkshough

  1. A stout, stubborn person.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 65
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