a. Sc. Also 9 quiscos(kos). [Of obscure origin.] Difficult to deal with or settle, ticklish, ‘kittle.’
1720. Wodrow, Corr. (1843), II. 485. Being biassed with his opinion in quisquose and difficult matters.
1721. Wodrow, Hist. Suffer. Ch. Scot. (1829), II. II. xiii. 499. The truths delivered by ministers … on quisquous subjects.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., IV. ix. (1849), 175. Your conduct this day has been very quiscos. Ibid. (1836), in Tait’s Mag., III. 33/2. The leddies maybe a wee quiscoskos in character.
