Word: bucking
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bu
cking
Definition: The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
Morphemes:
Affix: buck
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: bouken
Language: enm
Decoded: bouken
Meaning: steep in lye
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.