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naughty pack Obs. exc. dial.
Also 6–7 naughtipack(e, naughtie-, etc.
[f. naughty a.: cf. pack n.1 4. The adj. is freq. hyphened to, or written as one with, the noun.]
†1. A woman of bad character. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 632/1 The counsayle of one naughtypacke [F. une ribaulde] may make a wenche to bolde. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 868 Will not all men crie out that shee is a naughtipacke and an adulteresse? 1600Holland Livy xxvi. xii. 592 A Capuan wench.., a naughtie-pack and an harlot. 1638Ford Fancies iii. ii, 'Tis scarce possible To distinguish one of these same naughty packs From true and arrant ladies. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. 106, I never heard she was a naughty Pack. 1743in Howell State Trials (1813) XVII. 1159 Until my lord had mentioned she was his wife, he took her to be a naughty pack.
†2. A wicked or dissolute man. Obs.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Titus 28 Wherfore rebuke such naughtypackes earnestly, that they may ones waxe good. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xii. 9 The naughti⁓packs or the ofskowrings of men. 1618Barnevelt's Apol. c 3 This base, impudent, and vaine-glorious fellow, this periur'd and adulterous naughty-packe. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. ii. 31 Monk Ailsi (like a naughty-pack as he was) would never show that respect unto it.
3. dial. A naughty child or person.
1828Craven Gloss. 1869Lonsdale Gloss. |