pranksomeadj.
/ˈpraŋks(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈpræŋks(ə)m/ Inclined to play pranks; mischievous.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adjective]
ramping1484
rampish1530
frolic?1548
prankya1556
hoiting1594
tricksy1598
tida1641
frolickish1660
romping1662
hoity-toity1690
rompish1696
frolicsome1699
friskful1728
highty-tighty1737
frolicky1748
prankish1776
rollicking1786
prankfula1795
pranksome1810
tricksome1815
espiègle1816
larkish1823
skylarking1826
larking1828
rompy1838
larky1841
rollicksome1841
Pucklike1845
rollicky1846
frolicful1848
larksome1871
puckish1874
horseplayish1882
frolicking1887
tricksical1889
shenaniganning1924
1810 Morning Chron. 16 Mar. 3/4 To swell her brazen store, With one such pranksome, tittering booby more.
1855 J. B. Jones Winkles xxvii. 329 Those pranksome girls..have been telling me that this sprig of nobility..has been stealing away the hearts of our American girls.
1876 W. H. Mason in Macmillan's Mag. 34 452 Some pranksome imp..has turned off the hot water.
1947 Man 47 17/2 Ghosts..are represented by the pranksome folk draped with white sheets.
1983 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 31 Oct. 1/2 The pranksome traditions of halloween night came to America with Irish, Welsh and Scottish immigrants in the late 19th Century.
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Mar. ii. 8 It was stolen umpteen times by pranksome students.
Derivatives
ˈpranksomeness n. now rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > frolicsomeness
rompishness1711
frolicsomeness1727
espièglerie1816
prankfulness1830
prankishness1838
rollickingness1860
rollicksomeness1861
pranksomeness1876
larkishnessa1893
larkiness1896
puckishness1900
1876 Harper's Mag. July 179/2 Surely that gaunt body could never have known the pranksomeness of colthood.
1901 J. W. De Forest Downing Legends i. xiv. 17 The pranksomeness of youthful mood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1810