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say it: BUHK-skin
buckskin is a noun meaning "horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail". It is pronounced /ˈbʌkˌskɪn/ — BUHK-skin. It carries 2 recorded senses.
horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail
a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for buckskin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.