A variant spelling or dialectal form related to 'bucko' or 'buckawn'; a rowdy, swaggering young man.
A variant of 'bucko' possibly influenced by Irish pronunciation and dialectal spelling. This represents one of several English spellings used to represent Irish English speech patterns.
Buckone is one of those words that shows how English writers struggled to represent Irish accents phonetically in the 19th century—you can almost hear the accent in the spelling!
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