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puckish

adj
/ˈpʌkɪʃ/

Etymology

From Puck + -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

  1. inherited from *pūkô✻
  2. inherited from *pūkō✻
  3. inherited from pūca
  4. inherited from pouke
  5. suffixed as puckish — “Puck + ish”

Definitions

  1. Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about…

    Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.

    • He has a puckish sense of humor.
    • She has a puckish attitude.
    • He has a puckish grin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for puckish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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