Crossword clues for puckish
puckish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puckish \Puck"ish\, a. [From Puck.]
Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. ``Puckish freaks.''
--J.
R. Green.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1867, from Puck + -ish. Related: Puckishly; puckishness.
Wiktionary
a. mischievous; excessively playful.
WordNet
adj. naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter" [syn: impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish]
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.