buckish

English

Etymology

From buck +‎ -ish.

Adjective

buckish (comparative more buckish, superlative most buckish)

1. (obsolete) Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.

   Synonyms: stinky, lustful; see also Thesaurus:malodorous, Thesaurus:randy

2. (now rare) Like a dandy; foppish.

   Synonyms: dandiacal, buckish; see also Thesaurus:foppish

   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 97:

     Not to detail the history minutely, there was a pretty numerous company, two genteelish ladies and their husbands, one a clergyman of buckish cast […] .

Derived terms

• buckishly
• buckishness