buckish en · ADJ
Etymology
From buck + -ish.
Meanings
- (obsolete) Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
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(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
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more buckish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most buckish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
lustful · foppy · Jemmy-Jessamy · stimulated · fetid · buckish · foppish · buckish · buckish · corny · gagging for it · stinky · horny · nonfragrant · pongy · toey · lily-handed · concupiscent · excited · on the nose · wanton · graveolent · dandiacal · lewd · whiff · turned on · unchaste · amorous · putredinous · aroused · in heat · lascivious · drippy · cacodorous · beauish · buckish · Woosterian · randy · ablaze · unfragrant · impure · ravenous · reeking · lusty · dandy · macaronic · ruttish · flustered · thirsty · venereal · hot · dudish · stinking · dandiacal · sexed up · venereous · libidinous · bad · dandyish · smelly · unaromatic · stinksome · lickerish · stinky · malodorous · desirous · funky · reeky · nonaromatic · frisky · niffy · dandyistic · stank · swellish · foul-smelling · lustful · olid · stenchy · hot to trot · DTF · whiffy · noisome · dandified · coxcombical · toey as a Roman sandal · prurient · mawkish · ripe · fuckish · hot and bothered · rutty