waggishnessn.
/ˈwaɡᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈwæɡᵻʃnᵻs/ The state or character of being waggish; sportive mischief; jocularity of speech or behaviour. Also, †wantonness, licentiousness.
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goleshipc1000
golenessa1050
kaggerleȝcc1175
untowenshipa1250
follyc1300
wantonnessc1390
ragerya1393
nicetya1400
wantonhead1435
lightnessa1450
gole?a1500
free will?1518
nicenessa1533
looseness1576
licentiousness1586
waggishness1591
libertinage1611
libertinism1611
licence1713
fastness1859
permissiveness1946
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > state or character
waggishness1591
wagship1608
archness1709
roguishness1816
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Travessura Frowardnesse, wantonnesse, waggishnes.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 67 A Christian Boy in Constantinople, had like to haue been stoned, for gagging, in a waggishnesse, a long Billed Fowle.
1673 Humours Town (1693) 67 The Softness of Ovid, the Majesty of Virgil, the Waggishness of Catullus.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxiv. 290 Clerical waggishness..generally to be found among minor canons.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Feb. 3/2 It is only in a spirit of waggishness that this could be said of Sir John Gilbert.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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