The story
- Old English · derived frombūc“belly, container”
- Middle English · derived frombouk“fishtrap”
- English todayeelbuck
From eel + buck (“trap”), from Middle English bouk (“fishtrap”), from Old English būc (“belly, container”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishbouk all →
bulkboukbuckwagon
Old Englishbūc all →
boukbuckwagon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.