شكس

شَكِسٌ ذ , (Fr, S, Msb, K,) or ↓ شَكْسٌ, (S,) and ↓ شَكُسٌ, (K,) the first agreeable with analogy, (S,) A man (S) refractory, untractable, perverse, stubborn, or obstinate, in disposition: (S, K:) or hard in disposition, or illnatured: (TA:) or evil in disposition, or illnatured, and very perverse or cross or repugnant and averse; syn. شَرِسٌ: (Msb:) and ↓ شِكْسٌ and ↓ مِشْكَسٌ are likewise epithets applied [in the same sense, but the latter having an intensive signification,] to a man: (IAar, TA:) pl. شُكْسٌ; (S, K;) a pl. of the first or third; (K;) or of the second, like as صُدْقٌ is pl. of صَدْقٌ. (S.) ― -b2- Also the first, (tropical:) Niggardly; tenacious; avaricious. (K.)