Crossword clues for waggish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waggish \Wag"gish\ (-g[i^]sh), a.
Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. ``A company of waggish boys.''
--L'Estrange.Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. [1913 Webster] -- Wag"gish*ly, adv. -- Wag"gish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"willing to make a fool of oneself, and fond of doing so to others," 1580s, from wag (n.) + -ish. Related: Waggishly; waggishness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 witty, jocular, like a wag 2 mischievous, tricky
WordNet
adj. witty or joking; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James Fenimore Cooper
Usage examples of "waggish".
At which point the newscaster, obviously caught unaware by the demented poesy his waggish writer had planted in the script, fell into a deep and rumbling fit of laughter from which he could not be retrieved.
Muttering hard comments about the impudence of waggish crows, the bard flung his arms about the trunk and tried to haul himself upward.
They saw his waggish associate point out the place of their concealment to Wringhim, who came towards them, out of curiosity to see what his friend meant by what he believed to be a joke, manifestly without crediting it in the least degree.
He was no Socrates, for he lacked both the subtlety and the ardor, but I relished his waggish good humor.
And they will be waggish men and original, like Paul Ehrlich, for it is not from a mere combination of incessant work and magnificent laboratories that such marvelous cures are to be got.
Henrika and Cornelius van den Meer plan a feast for their friends in Haarlem and Amsterdam, for those who have staked sums of capital on the tulip cargoes, and also for those whose tongues are waggish and whose wallets are heavy.
We remind you that an officer and a gentleman does not indulge in waggish humor or display.
It was also his waggish habit to compose quirksome aphorisms in verse.
It was, at the time, purposely attributed to some of these waggish visitors, a sort of privileged race, who never fail of indulging in numerous good-humoured freaks with the inhabitants of Eton, to show off to the rising generation the pleasantries, whims, and improvements of a college life.
Henrika and Cornelius van den Meer plan a feast for their friends in Haarlem and Amsterdam, for those who have staked sums of capital on the tulip cargoes, and also for those whose tongues are waggish and whose wallets are heavy.
In an hour's time, when the small hand of the watch had moved a twelfth of the way round the dial, the whole thing should be over, one way or the other: either the rebels and Frenchmen would control the island (in which case they'd hang the Governor and most of the Calypsos would be dead) or the bodies of the rebels and Frenchmen would be piled up at the top of the slope, and waggish seamen would refer to the Battle of Sint Kruis Baai.
Tradition and convention would have required Davlo to named CFL-001 something like Caefal, or Cuffle, or even, as one waggish colleague suggested, Careful.