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buck-passing

noun

Etymology

From buck + passing.

  1. derived from *peth₂-✻
  2. derived from *pattus✻
  3. derived from passus
  4. derived from *passo✻ — “step, walk, pass”
  5. derived from passer
  6. inherited from passen
  7. suffixed as passing — “pass + ing”
  8. formed as buck-passing — “buck + passing”

Definitions

  1. Blameshifting

    Blameshifting; the act of absolving oneself of responsibility or concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction.

    • It's from here onwards that the whole web of buck-passing and excuses began.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for buck-passing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA