buckish

adj — 2 senses

buckish

adj

Etymology From buck + -ish.

1

Obsolete Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.

2

Archaic Like a dandy; foppish.

  • Not to detail the history minutely, there was a pretty numerous company, two genteelish ladies and their husbands, one a clergyman of buckish cast […] .1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 97
Derived terms
buckishly, buckishness

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