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waggishness|ˈwægɪʃnɪs|
[f. waggish a. + -ness.]
The state or character of being waggish; sportive mischief; jocularity of speech or behaviour. Also, † wantonness, licentiousness.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Travessura, frowardnesse, wantonnesse, waggishnes. 1625Bacon Ess., Of Goodness (Arb.) 201 A Christian Boy in Constantinople, had like to haue been stoned, for gagging, in a waggishnesse, a long Billed Fowle. 1673Humours Town (1693) 67 The Softness of Ovid, the Majesty of Virgil, the Waggishness of Catullus. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxxiv. 290 Clerical waggishness..generally to be found among minor canons. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Feb. 3/2 It is only in a spirit of waggishness that this could be said of Sir John Gilbert. |