a. [f. BUCK sb.1 + -ISH1.]
1. Resembling or characteristic of a he-goat; lascivious; ill-smelling.
1515. Barclay, Egloges, IV. (1570), C vj/1. Buckishe Joly well stuffed as a ton.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 62 b. Sampharitik … hath a rammishe or buckishe styngkyng smell.
2. Of or resembling a ‘buck’ or dandy, foppish.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), v. Drunken hermits, Buckish magicians.
1870. Daily News, 19 April, 5/6. The fashionable old gentlemen who appear to flourish and look buckish to a far greater age.
Hence Buckishly adv., Buckishness.
a. 1822. Shelley, Swellfoot, II. ii. She has been putting on boots and spurs, and a hunting-cap, buckishly cocked on one side.
1803. Pic Nic, No. 11 (1806), II. 140. Activity is fashion, honest emulation buckishness.
