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buckish

adj

Etymology

From buck + -ish.

  1. derived from *būkaz✻
  2. derived from *būk✻
  3. derived from būk
  4. derived from bûk — “belly”
  5. inherited from buk
  6. suffixed as buckish — “buck + ish”

Definitions

  1. Like a male goat

    Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.

  2. Like a dandy

    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 […] .

The neighborhood

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