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adjective, -ti·er, -ti·est.
1.
disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
2.
improper, tasteless, indecorous, or indecent: a naughty word.
3.
Obsolete. wicked; evil.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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naughty
late 14c., naugti "needy, having nothing," from O.E. nawiht (see naught). Sense of "wicked, evil, morally wrong" is attested from 1520s. The more tame main modern sense of "disobedient" (especially of children) is attested from 1630s. A woman of bad character c.1530-1750
EXPAND might be called a naughty pack.
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