Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as bucolic.

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  • adjective Bucolic.

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  • adjective Alternative form of bucolic.

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Examples

  • “I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”

    The Monastery 2008

  • He tried employment: he pottered about the little farm, advising and helping, -- and that so zealously that the landlord retired altogether from that department, and Griffith, instead of he, became Mercy's ally, agricultural and bucolical.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

  • QUOTATION: I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

    Quotations 1919

  • _ "Of incredible bashfulness and bucolical appearance."

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

  • It appears that Mister CRUM, though endowed with a somewhat sheepish and bucolical exterior, is of tip-top Scottish caste and lineage, and the landed proprietor.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

  • A certain local young laird, of incredible bashfulness and bucolical appearance, is a frequent visitor at the manse, and the fervent admirer of Miss WEE-WEE, who cannot endure the tedium of his society, and is constantly endeavouring to escape therefrom.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

  • The second year of Percy's absence there could be no doubt that three or four bucolical hearts were turned on her account.

    Under Fire Charles King 1888

  • It so happened that on every side of George but one were nomads, shepherd-kings -- fellows with a thousand head of horned cattle, and sheep like white pebbles by the sea; but on his right hand was another small bucolical, a Scotchman, who had started with less means than himself, and was slowly working his way, making a halfpenny and saving a penny after the manner of his nation.

    It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

  • I wonder whether that bucolical grasshopper, who is so enamoured of the hop and jump that he calls 'progress,' classes the society of the Mormons among the evidences of civilized advancement?

    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I wonder whether that bucolical grasshopper, who is so enamoured of the hop and jump that he calls

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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