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quiscus

quiscus is the alternative spelling of quisquous.

Meaning of quisquous

Adjective

quisquous (comparative more quisquous, superlative most quisquous)

  1. (Scotland, rare) Hard to deal with; dubious; of people: having a character difficult to assess.
    • Besides, the truths delivered by ministers in the fields upon quisquous subjects, with no small caution by some, and pretty safely, were heard and taken up by the hearers, according to their humours and opinions, many times far different from, and altogether without the cautions given by the...1830, rev. Robert Wodrow, rev. Robert Burns, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restoration to the Revolution, Tom 2

Forms of quiscus

comparativemore quiscus
superlativemost quiscus

Questions about quiscus

What is quiscus the alternative spelling of?
Quiscus is the alternative spelling of quisquous.

Words near quiscus in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quiscus (page history and authors); quisquous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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