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Buckley

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈbʌkli//

A placename: A suburban area of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9015).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A placename: A suburban area of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9015).

  2. 2

    A placename: A town and community with a town council in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2864).

  3. 3

    A placename: A locality in Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.

  4. 4

    A placename: A village in Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.

  5. 5

    A placename: A village in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.

  6. 6

    A placename: A city in Pierce County, Washington, United States.

  7. 7

    A habitational surname from Old English.

    Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer).

Etymology

From Old English bucca (“he-goat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to buck + -ley (“lea”).

Forms

plural
Buckleys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).