[Meaning] one who reproaches/reviles. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] mischief/abuse.
*khka/s: o( loi/doros. kai\ *khkasmo/s.
The adjective
khka/s is used in
Callimachus fr. 656
khka/di su\n glw/ssh| "with an abusive tongue", and
Nicander,
Alexipharmaca 185
piote/rhn o(/te bo/trun e)si/nato khka\s a)lw/phc "when the mischievous fox plundered the fat grapes". The noun
khkasmo/s comes from
Lycophron Alexandra 545 (dative plural) or 692 (accusative singular).
Otherwise the words only occur in lexica and
scholia:
khka/s from
Hesychius kappa2482 on;
khkasmo/s in e.g. the
scholia to
Lycophron 545 (above). The
Etymologicum Parvum and
Etymologicum Magnum derive
khka/s from
kako/s, a derivation the LSJ repeats with reservations. The
Etymologicum Parvum is the first lexicon to gloss
khka/s as
loidori/a. The word is absent from
Photius'
Lexicon.
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