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naughties

naughties noun: naughty people or things. Also the alternative form of noughties.

Noun (1)

naughties pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Naughty people or things.

Noun (2) capitalized: Naughties

Naughties

  1. Alternative letter-case form of naughties (“first decade of a century”).
    • The house will be transformed—it will be the Eighties. Not the real Eighties but the Naughties version (Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Naughties) where pink and black come in organic cotton as opposed to stretch polyester.2011, Kathryn White, Emily Green and Me, Penguin, →ISBN

Also used as

naughties is also the alternative form of noughties.

Origin of naughties

From naughty + -s.

Questions about naughties

What does naughties mean?
Naughties means naughty people or things.
What part of speech is naughties?
Naughties is a noun.

Words near naughties in the dictionary

  1. naugahide
  2. naugahyde
  3. Naugatuck
  4. naught
  5. naughtier
  6. naughties
  7. naughtiest
  8. naughtily
  9. naughtiness
  10. naughtinesses
  11. naughtly

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