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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
puckish
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 all his genius, Fermi had a decidedly puckish side.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puckish

Puckish \Puck"ish\, a. [From Puck.] Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. ``Puckish freaks.''
--J. R. Green.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
puckish

1867, from Puck + -ish. Related: Puckishly; puckishness.

Wiktionary
puckish

a. mischievous; excessively playful.

WordNet
puckish

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.