puckish
/ˈpʌkɪʃ/
puckish adjective: having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
Adjective
puckish (comparative more puckish, superlative most puckish)
- Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
- He has a puckish sense of humor.
- She has a puckish attitude.
- Synonyms:
- impish, mischievous
puckish meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
puckish in Bengali
- দুষ্টু
puckish in Malayalam
- naughty, mischievous, impish
- കുസൃതിയുള്ള, കുസൃതിക്കുടുക്കയായ, കുസൃതിയായ, ലീലാലോലുപനായ, വികൃതിത്തരമുള്ള, കുസൃതികാട്ടുന്ന
Examples of puckish in a sentence
- He has a puckish grin.
- They are so puckish for their love of practical jokes.
- Wolfowitz spoke softly to Yasa, who evidently had no idea who he was but responded with a puckish smile.2007 April 2, John Cassidy, “The Next Crusade”, in The New Yorker:
- “Chandler Bing,” wrote Matthew Perry in his puckish, self-mocking memoir, “changed the way that America spoke”.2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The...
Synonyms of puckish
Forms of puckish
| comparative | more puckish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most puckish |
Origin of puckish
From Puck + -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Words formed from puckish
Questions about puckish
- What does puckish mean?
- Puckish means having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
- What is puckish in Bengali?
- Puckish in Bengali is দুষ্টু. See Puckish meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use puckish in a sentence?
- He has a puckish grin.
- What part of speech is puckish?
- Puckish is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce puckish?
- Puckish is pronounced /ˈpʌkɪʃ/.
Words near puckish in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: puckish (page history and authors); puckish (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); puckish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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