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Definition of Buckish
1. a. Dandified; foppish.
Definition of Buckish
1. Adjective. (archaic) Like a dandy; foppish; swellish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buckish
1. foppish [adj] - See also: foppish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buckish
Literary usage of Buckish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"buckish, a. Gay, dashing, dandified, foppish. Buckle, я. I. Clasp, brooch, broach.
house of prostitution, house of ill-fame. Brotherhood, n. 1. ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Mr. Musgrave, a buckish kind of young man of fashion.—Mad. D'Arblay, Diary, ii.
182. But it so hap'd, among the rest The farmer's landlord was a guest ..."
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