buckish

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adjective

Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.

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Meanings

adjectivebuckish (comparative more buckish, superlative most buckish)

comparative more buckish · superlative most buckish

  1. obsoleteLike a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.

    Synonyms: stinky, lustful, bad, cacodorous, fetid, foul-smelling, funky, graveolent

  2. archaicLike 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, dandiacal, dandified, dandy, dandyish, dandyistic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveLike a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.

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adjectiveLike a dandy; foppish.

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Also see
arousedbadbeauishcornycoxcombicaldandiacaldandifieddandydandyishdandyisticdrippydudishflusteredfoppishfoppyfreakyhornyhotjemmy-jessamylitmacaronicmalodorousripeswellishvenerealwantonwetwhiffwoosterian

Origin

From buck + -ish.

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APA

buckish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buckish

MLA

“buckish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buckish. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “buckish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buckish.

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