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English
Etymology
Shared with quisquous and quisquis; from Latin quisquis (“whosoever”) or by reduplication of Latin quis (“of what kind”).
Adjective
quiscoskos (comparative more quiscoskos, superlative most quiscoskos)
- (Scotland, rare) Synonym of quisquous.
1836, William Tait, “Tribulations of the Rev. Cowal Kilmunt”, in Tait's Edinburgh magazine. n.s. v.3 1836.:Mr Ettles having gone away, I then sent the lad to ask the landlord; jalousing that his house, for an inns, being a sober sojourn, and the leddies maybe a wee quiscoskos in character, might be the reason of the prohibition.
References
- “quiscoskos”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- John Jamieson (1808) “QUISQUOUS, adj.”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: , volumes II (L–Z), Edinburgh: University Press; for W[illiam] Creech, A[rchibald] Constable & Co., and W[illiam] Blackwood; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, T[homas] Cadell & W. Davies, and H. D. Symonds, →OCLC.