English Explanatory Dictionary

buckish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
  2. Like a dandy; foppish.

Word forms

buckish more buckish most buckish

Etymology

From buck + -ish.

Synonyms

stinky lustful bad buckish cacodorous fetid foul-smelling funky graveolent malodorous mawkish niffy noisome nonaromatic nonfragrant olid on the nose pongy putredinous reeking reeky ripe smelly stank stenchy stinking stinksome unaromatic unfragrant whiff whiffy dandiacal beauish coxcombical dandified dandy dandyish dandyistic dudish foppish foppy Jemmy-Jessamy lily-handed macaronic swellish Woosterian

Derived words

buckishly buckishness
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