buckish
buckish adjective: like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
Adjective
buckish (comparative more buckish, superlative most buckish)
- Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
- Synonyms:
- stinky, lustful, bad, cacodorous, fetid, foul-smelling, funky, graveolent, malodorous, mawkish
- 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
- Synonyms:
- dandiacal, beauish, coxcombical, dandified, dandy, dandyish, dandyistic, dudish, foppish, foppy
buckish meaning in Tamil
buckish in Tamil
- கிளர்ச்சியுள்ள
Synonyms of buckish
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Forms of buckish
| comparative | more buckish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most buckish |
Origin of buckish
From buck + -ish.
Words formed from buckish
Questions about buckish
- What does buckish mean?
- Buckish means like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
- What is buckish in Tamil?
- Buckish in Tamil is கிளர்ச்சியுள்ள. See Buckish meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is buckish?
- Buckish is an adjective.
Words near buckish in the dictionary
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