puckish
Use Puckish in a sentence
ɪʃ adjective ( often initial capital letter )
mischievous; impish.
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| —n | |
| (often capital) Also called: Robin Goodfellow a mischievous or evil spirit | |
| [Old English pūca, of obscure origin] | |
| 'puckish2 | |
| —adj | |
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Puckish
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example sentences
His writing style in court opinions is literary, even puckish.
The face is familiar: twinkling eyes, cherubic grin, that extra rigging of puckish jowls.
And so there were flashes of this puckish sense of humor from his boyhood.
Likely it was placed there in a puckish moment but it nevertheless conveys a message of one of his mores.
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