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quiscoskos

quiscoskos adjective: synonym of quisquous.

Adjective

quiscoskos (comparative more quiscoskos, superlative most quiscoskos)

  1. (Scotland, rare) Synonym of quisquous.
    • 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.1836, William Tait, “Tribulations of the Rev. Cowal Kilmunt”, in Tait's Edinburgh magazine. n.s. v.3 1836.
    Synonyms:
    quisquous

Synonyms of quiscoskos

Forms of quiscoskos

comparativemore quiscoskos
superlativemost quiscoskos

Origin of quiscoskos

Shared with quisquous and quisquis; from Latin quisquis (“whosoever”) or by reduplication of Latin quis (“of what kind”).

Questions about quiscoskos

What does quiscoskos mean?
Quiscoskos means synonym of quisquous.
What part of speech is quiscoskos?
Quiscoskos is an adjective.

Words near quiscoskos in the dictionary

  1. quis-quis
  2. quisbies
  3. quisby
  4. quiscal
  5. quiscos
  6. quiscoskos
  7. quiscus
  8. Quisenberry
  9. Quisenberrys
  10. quish
  11. quishan

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