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waggish, a.|ˈwægɪʃ|
[f. wag n.2 + -ish1.]
1. Of a person: Having the qualities of a wag; playfully mischievous. † Also, wanton, loose.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 240 And therefore is Loue said to be a childe, Because in choise he is often beguil'd, As waggish boyes in game themselues forsweare. 1607Rowlands Famous Hist. 13 Fair Hellen was a waggish wench of Greece. 1664H. More Apology 562 Certainly some very waggish Master of the Ceremonies has taught you this ill manners. 1716Gay Trivia ii. 91 When waggish boys the stunted beesom ply. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. vi. ix. 120 If [the tree died] by being shaken or loosen'd at the first sprouting, by waggish People. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans IV. 130 But, O fortune! what a waggish damsel art thou! 1822Scott Nigel i, The stranger looked sternly at the waggish apprentice. 1836Hor. Smith (title), The Tin Trumpet; or, Heads and Tails, for the Wise and the Waggish. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. vi. (1879) 307 A long series of ludicrous replies..spelled out..by the direction of waggish questioners. 1904J. T. Fowler Durham Univ. 65 Certain waggish undergraduates..sowed mustard seed after dark.
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of a wag. Of an act, speech, etc.: Done or made in a spirit of waggery or mischievous fun; prankish.
1589Greene Tullies Love Wks. (Grosart) VII. 107, I pray you tell me whereof are womens hearts made?.. Venus hearing hir son make such a waggish demaunde, beganne thus to reply. 1594O. B. Quest. Profit Concern. 18 Had I bene complained of for doing shrewdnesses in the time of my waggish youth. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. iv. 160 You must forget to be a Woman: change..Feare, and Nicenesse..into a waggish courage. 1616Chapman tr. Musæus Annot. H 5, The word vnhappie in our Language hath diuers Vnderstandings; as waggish or subtle, &c. 1617R. White Cupid's Banishm. in Nichols Progr. Jas. I (1828) III. 287 Boye, leave your waggish wit; Putt up your arrowes in your quiver and bee gone. 1659Wood Life 16 Sept. (O.H.S.) I. 283 Some of the company, who knew the design to be waggish, fell a laughing, and betray'd the matter. 1738Pope Epil. Sat. i. 17 And own, the Spaniard did a waggish thing, Who cropt our Ears, and sent them to the King. 1836W. Irving Astoria I. 262 The passing..was equivalent among boat⁓men to the crossing of the line among sailors, and was celebrated with like ceremonials of a rough and waggish nature. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i, She..cried, with a waggish shake of her head: ‘Aha! Caught you spying, did I?’ 1904Athenæum 20 Aug. 234/1 Mr. Tarkington writes in..a vein of waggish farce. |