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語源

Borrowed from Irish pocán.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pʌkˈɔːn/
• (General American) IPA: /pʌkˈɔn/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /pʌkˈɑn/
• (Ireland) IPA: /pʌkˈɒːn/
• 韻: -ɔːn

名詞

puckaun (plural puckauns)

1. (Ireland) A he-goat.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     Riley's puckaun again, said Mr. Nolan, I can smell him from here.

参照

• “puckaun, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.