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ˈprankful, a. [f. prank n.2 + -ful.] Full of pranks; mischievous, tricky; frolicsome. Hence ˈprankfulness.
1824Galt Rothelan I. ii. ix. 228 The prankful boy goading it with a stick, the charger reared so suddenly that the rider was unseated. 1831Fraser's Mag. II. 715 Rather wounding by an unbounded prankfulness, than by a wish to inflict pain. 1839New Monthly Mag. LVII. 36 Prankful squirrels, nibbling at the rind. |