elbuck

Scots

Picture dictionary

1= heid 2= face 3= neck 4= shouder 5= kist 6= nael 7= paich 8= lisk 9= pintle 10–14= leg 11= knee 13= anklet 14= fit 15–19= airm 16= elbuck 18= wrist 19= hand

Alternative forms

• elbock, elbok, elboke

Etymology

From Early Scots elbok, from Middle English elbohe, from Old English elboga, elnboga, from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô.

Noun

elbuck (plural elbucks)

1. (anatomy) elbow

References

• “elbuck”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• Eagle, Andy, editor (2025), “elbuck”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎