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buck and doe
DCHP-2 (Sep 2013)
Spelling variants:Buck and Doe
n. & adj. — predominantly Ontario
a dance or party for an engaged couple to raise funds for their wedding.
Type: 1. Origin — In Canada, the terms bachelor party and bachelorette party are used for an event that celebrates, often exuberantly, the end of the bachelor/bachelorette lifestyle with one's closest friends. Buck and doe parties by contrast, are a joint event of bride and groom with the purpose of raising funds, with the extended family partaking. A common variant of buck and doe is stag and doe (also a Canadianism). As Chart 2 convincingly shows, buck and doe is a chiefly Ontarian variant of stag and doe.
See also COD-2, which first identified the term as an Ontarianism (marked as "Cdn (Ont)").
See also COD-2, which first identified the term as an Ontarianism (marked as "Cdn (Ont)").
See: stag and doe
The expression is often used in compounds, as in buck and doe party.
Quotations
1989
I am also not interested in going out with the girls to indulge in pornography, so I suggested having a big "buck and doe" party for everyone.
1999
Loud, exciting, rowdy and full of life.
Surprisingly, it wasn't for a Buck and Doe party in the upstairs community hall.
2004
These "buck and doe" or "Jack and Jill" parties, with the bride and groom both attending, started as a replacement for the single- sex bridal shower or bachelor party, explains Bettie Bradley, editor of Today's Bride.
2007
In addition to nuptials, stag parties and "Buck and Doe" festivities carry risks of intoxicated guests causing damage to a venue, and are also insured by Weddinguard.
2014
Stag and does, or buck and does as they're known locally, become a rare outlet for rural Ontarians to get to know their neighbours and have a bit of fun while simultaneously helping out a young family that, more and more these days, are finding money alarmingly tight.
The people at the AGCO fail to grasp this (being centrally located in the GTA). In publicly stating that it fully intends on seeing the demise of the buck and doe, it's having a hand in unravelling whole communities.
References
- COD-2
Images
Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 13 November 2013
