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Puckish   /pˈəkɪʃ/   Listen
Puckish

adjective
1.
Naughtily or annoyingly playful.  Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, wicked.  "A wicked prank"



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"Puckish" Quotes from Famous Books



... hatred of war sprang not so much from aversion to blood or to expense, real as was her aversion to both, as from the fact that peace left the field open to the diplomatic manoeuvres and intrigues in which she excelled. Her delight in the consciousness of her ingenuity broke out in a thousand puckish freaks, freaks in which one can hardly see any purpose beyond the purpose of sheer mystification. She revelled in "bye-ways" and "crooked ways." She played with grave cabinets as a cat plays with a mouse, and with much of ...
— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green

... the lady—fascinations so alluring that even I, a middle-aged Father of a Family and Justice of the Peace, was instantly reduced by them to the softest moral pulp; and he had not allowed for the Puckish glee with which I welcomed the tale, rolled it round in my wicked fancy, and bent its ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone



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