Definition of BUCKISH

buckish

Adj

  • Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
  • Like a dandy; foppish.

Adjective

  • Foppish or dandy-like in dress or manner.

Examples

  • His buckish confidence was unwarranted given his low score in the Scrabble game.

Origin / Etymology

From buck + -ish.

Synonyms

DTF, Jemmy-Jessamy, Woosterian, ablaze, amorous, aroused, bad, beauish, buckish, cacodorous, concupiscent, coxcombical, dandiacal, dandified, dandy, dandyish, dandyistic, desirous, dudish, excited, fetid, foppish, foppy, foul-smelling, frisky, fuckish, funky, gagging for it, graveolent, hard, horny, hot, hot and bothered, hot to trot, in heat, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lily-handed, lustful, lusty, macaronic, malodorous, niffy, noisome, nonaromatic, nonfragrant, olid, on the nose, pongy, prurient, putredinous, randy, ravenous, reeking, reeky, ripe, rock hard, ruttish, rutty, sexed up, smelly, stank, stenchy, stimulated, stinking, stinksome, stinky, swellish, thirsty, toey, toey as a Roman sandal, turned on, unaromatic, unchaste, unfragrant, venereal, venereous, wanton, whiff, whiffy

Scrabble Score: 18

buckish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
buckish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
buckish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 20

buckish: valid Words With Friends Word