Ap Pukkaru!

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  • ap: (Welsh) son
  • Aboukir Bay: a bay close to Alexandria in Egypt, the scene of the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798, in which Nelson defeated the French fleet; Napoleon defeated the Turks in the Battle of Aboukir Bay on 25 July 1799; on 8 March 1801, the British army commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby landed from its transports in the face of a strenuous opposition from a French force entrenched on the beach
  • buckaroo: a cowboy
  • puckerow: (Anglo-Indian) to seize, lay hold of; also spelt pukkaroo