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English
Etymology
From buck + -ish.
Adjective
buckish (comparative more buckish, superlative most buckish)
- (obsolete) Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
- Synonyms: stinky, lustful; see also Thesaurus:malodorous, Thesaurus:randy
- (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 .
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