different between buckish vs puckish

English

Etymology

From buck +? -ish.

Adjective

buckish (comparative more buckish, superlative most buckish)

1. (obsolete) Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
2. (now rare) Like a dandy; foppish.
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 97:

     Not to detail the history minutely, there was a pretty numerous company, two genteelish ladies and their husbands, one a clergyman of buckish cast […] .

English

Etymology

Puck +? -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?k??/

Adjective

puckish (comparative more puckish, superlative most puckish)

1. Mischievous; excessively playful.
   • Wolfowitz spoke softly to Yasa, who evidently had no idea who he was but responded with a puckish smile. - The New Yorker, The Next Crusade by John Cassidy, 09/04/2007 [1]

Synonyms

• (mischievous): impish, mischievous, playful

Anagrams

• hickups