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naughty

adj
/ˈnɔːti/UK/ˈnɔti/US/ˈnɑti/

Etymology

From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.

  1. inherited from noughti

Definitions

  1. Mischievous

    Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).

    • Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.

  2. Sexually provocative

    Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.

    • I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.
    • If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!

  3. Decadent, had as indulgence, especially an unhealthy one.

    • You knew I had to include at least one naughty chocolate smoothie, didn't you?!
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.

      • my proneſſe to ſinne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell
      • […]How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
      • A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

    2. Bad, worthless, substandard.

      • In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty Englysshe, and the other is Cornysshe speche.
      • One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

    3. To perform sexual acts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at naughty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01naughty02badly03ill04wicked05mischievous

A definitional loop anchored at naughty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at naughty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA