naughty nineties plural noun (joc)

The 1890s, renowned for gaiety and high living

naughty pack noun (obsolete)

A person, esp a woman, of loose life, a ‘bad lot’

naughty step noun

A place where a child who has misbehaved is sent as a punishment (also figurative)

ninety /nīnˈti/

Nine times ten

nineˈties plural noun

1. The numbers ninety to ninety-nine
2. The years so numbered in a life or a century
3. A range of temperature from ninety to just less than one hundred degrees

nineˈtieth adjective

1. Last of ninety
2. Next after the eighty-ninth
3. Equal to one of ninety equal parts

1. A ninetieth part
2. A person or thing in ninetieth position

naughty nineties see under naughty