adj. (old).—Foppish; dandyish.
1782. BURNEY, Diary, etc. (1876), i., 463. A BUCKISH kind of young man of fashion.
1785. WOLCOT (‘Peter Pindar’), Apologetic Postcript to Ode upon Ode, in Wks. (Dublin, 1795), I., 365.
| Did not good Nathan tell that BUCKISH youth, | |
| David the king, that he stole sheep? |
1789. G. PARKER, Life’s Painter, 57. Having beat the rounds (as BUCKISH spirits phrase it) of that bustling microcosm, the British metropolis, for eighteen months.
1812. COMBE, Dr. Syntax, Picturesque, xvii. A BUCKISH blade, who kept a horse, To try his fortune on the course.
1858. G. ELIOT, Janet’s Repentance, v. I’ve made him as neat as a new pin this morning, and he says the Bishop will think him too BUCKISH by half.
1873. W. D. HOWELLS, A Chance Acquaintance, xiii. A very BUCKISH young fellow, with a heavy black moustache and black eyes, who wore a jaunty round hat, blue checked trousers, a white vest, and a morning-coat of blue diagonals.
