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Playfully mischievous
Answer for the clue "Playfully mischievous ", 7 letters:
puckish
Word definitions for puckish in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puckish \Puck"ish\, a. [From Puck .] Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. ``Puckish freaks.'' --J. R. Green.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. mischievous; excessively playful.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter" [syn: impish , implike , mischievous , pixilated , prankish ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1867, from Puck + -ish . Related: Puckishly ; puckishness .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Basil Rocke had a very puckish sense of humour and wryness which veiled a deep kindliness. ▪ But I have puckish news for you. ▪ But the smile is puckish indeed, and breaks through the formality of the posture often. ▪ For ...
Usage examples of puckish.
It was Grandad Hollin, his puckish features set in their customary smile.
The chief was a lean, spindly man, outwardly dour, but with a puckish sense of humor and who still talked in a broad Glaswegian accent, though for forty years he had been no nearer Scotland than an occasional Burns Night dinner in San Francisco.
In this case at least, the Well's oddball sense of humorsome sort of reflection, probably, of an early puckish programmer had simply made the outside match what was already there inside.