waggishadj.
/ˈwaɡɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈwæɡɪʃ/ 1. Of a person: Having the qualities of a wag; playfully mischievous. †Also, wanton, loose.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective]
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [adjective] > mischievously joking
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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 240 And therefore is loue said to bee a childe: Because, in choyce, he is so oft beguil'd. As waggish boyes, in game, themselues forsweare. View more context for this quotation
1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick 13 Fair Hellen was a waggish wench of Greece.
1664 H. More Apol. 562 Certainly some very waggish Master of the Ceremonies has taught you this ill manners.
1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 27 When waggish Boys the stunted Beesom ply.
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) vi. ix. 120 If [the tree died] by being shaken or loosen'd at the first sprouting, by waggish People.
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans IV. 130 But, O fortune! what a waggish damsel art thou!
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. i. 25 The stranger looked sternly at the waggish apprentice.
1836 Hor. Smith (title) The Tin Trumpet; or, Heads and Tails, for the Wise and the Waggish.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. vi. 307 A long series of ludicrous replies..spelled out..by the direction of waggish questioners.
1904 J. T. Fowler Durham Univ. 65 Certain waggish undergraduates..sowed mustard seed after dark.
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of a wag. Of an act, speech, etc.: Done or made in a spirit of waggery or mischievous fun; prankish.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [adjective]
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1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor 2 I pray you tell me whereof are womens hearts made?.. Venus hearing hir son make such a waggish demaunde, beganne thus to reply.
1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 18 Had I bene complained of for doing shrewdnesses in the time of my waggish youth.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iv. 158 You must forget to be a Woman: change..Feare, and Nicenesse..into a waggish courage. View more context for this quotation
1616 G. Chapman in tr. G. Musaeus Divine Poem Annot. sig. H5 The word vnhappie in our Language hath diuers Vnderstandings; as waggish or subtle, &c.
1617 R. White Cupid's Banishm. in Nichols Progr. Jas. I (1828) III. 287 Boye, leave your waggish wit; Putt up your arrowes in your quiver and bee gone.
1659 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 283 Some of the company, who knew the design to be waggish, fell a laughing, and betray'd the matter.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight 2 And own, the Spaniard did a waggish thing, Who cropt our Ears, and sent them to the King.
1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 262 The passing..was equivalent among boat~men to the crossing of the line among sailors, and was celebrated with like ceremonials of a rough and waggish nature.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 171 She..cried, with a waggish shake of her head: ‘Aha! Caught you spying, did I?’
1904 Athenæum 20 Aug. 234/1 Mr. Tarkington writes in..a vein of waggish farce.
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