naughtyn.
/ˈnɔːti/, U.S. /ˈnɔdi/, /ˈnɑdi/ colloquial.
1. † a. Evil or hostile people. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 288 (MED) Lest noughti shuld com nerre Thei sette hym to bataile.
c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 167 The labour of myn handes susteyneth the cowardes and noughty whiche persecute me with hunger and glayve.
b. A wicked or naughty person. rare.
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person
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c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxvii. xiv The naughty borrowes, payeng not.
1828 N. P. Wills Legendary 97 If, in letting in the light upon thy virtues, I expose aught at which the naughty will smile, I am sure..thou wilt forgive me.
1924 A. Woollcott Enchanted Aisles ii. 223 We would not put it above the naughties who direct the Guild to issue a small [pamphlet]..making such claims.
1995 Sugar Apr. 61 (caption) James Layton, it's rude to point, you naughty!
2. Frequently euphemistic.
a. Something considered to be naughty, esp. sexual impropriety. Frequently in plural.
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1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xx. 292 I've thought a great deal lately about my ‘bundle of naughties’, and being selfish is the largest one in it.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 502 That secondhand black operatop shift and short trunk leg naughties all split up the stitches at her last rape.
1964 New Statesman 21 Feb. 306/3 Trying to break away from nudies and naughties.
1986 B. Fussell Eating In p. x Eating in is the time to indulge in a whole black truffle or two, a little caviar, a quail, a chocolate naughty from the pastry shop.
1997 TV Quick 7 June (Granada Region ed.) 35/2 Really only of interest to those who'd like to see some illicit late-night highbrow naughties.
b. to do the (also a) naughty: to behave promiscuously; to have illicit sexual intercourse. Cf. to do the nasty at nasty n.1 2.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > be promiscuous
to play legerdeheel1605
to put it about1817
to do the (also a) naughty1902
to fool around1923
sleep1928
to play around1929
alleycat1937
to screw around1939
bed-hop1943
tom1950
horse1953
to whore it up1956
swing1964
1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 20/2 Shop and working girls in large towns sometimes say they work for their living, but do the naughty for their clothes.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 553/1 Naughty, do the, play the whore; to coït (of women only).
1986 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 10/6 Had Marc actually, er, done a naughty? Did he realise that he was putting his eight-month-old marriage at risk?
c. Originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand. An act of sexual intercourse.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of
swivec1560
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shag1937
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boff1956
naughty1959
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shtup1964
home run1967
seeing to1970
legover1975
bonk1978
zatch1980
boink1989
1959 D. Niland Big Smoke vii. 169 The woman giggled... ‘Come on, what about it?’ Ocker shook his head, grinning. ‘I'd like to oblige, but I can't... It's in me contract, no leaving the job for a naughty.’
1969 Private Eye 25 Apr. 12 What bloody fun have I had? Eight kiddies and two more on the way and I haven't even negotiated a naughty!
1983 Listener 21 Apr. 6/2 ‘Goodness gracious,’ said the network presenter, ‘where were they off to—a nice cold beer and a naughty?’
1990 Sun (Brisbane) 13 Feb. 11/5 The complaint of one elderly spectator—outraged at a couple ‘having a naughty’ in public.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
naughtyadj.int.
/ˈnɔːti/, U.S. /ˈnɔdi/, /ˈnɑdi/ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor
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rocky1921
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. vi. 226 (MED) Alle maner of men..That nedy ben and nauȝty [v.r. noȝt han], helpe hem with þi godis.
c1450 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Rawl.) (1869) B. vii. 72 More nedyer and nauȝtier [c1400 Laud he wolde ȝiue þat an other Þat were more nedy þan he].
2. Of a person.† a. Morally bad, wicked. Occasionally also of a domestic animal: vicious, uncontrollable. Cf. naught pron. 2a and noughty adj. 2. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective]
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improbous1657
malefactory1667
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unracy1782
unredeemed1799
demoralized1800
fetid1805
scarlet1820
gammy1832
nefast1849
disvaluable1942
badass1955
bad-assed1962
the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > wild or vicious
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [adjective]
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illa1200
unwrast?c1225
wrackc1375
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viciousc1386
naughtyc1460
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective]
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ill-disposedc1460
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uncharactered1841
c1460 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. (1900) 23 226 (MED) [The] mayntenaunce of Sir Richard Benet, parson of Estcodford, a nawghty man.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 155/2 Origene..neither was a naughty man nor vnlerned in scripture.
1569 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 63 Gevand evill exempill to utheris nauchtie and wickit personis to do the lyke vilipensioun.
1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. U2v An Oxe of mine being a naughty beast, through ye default of mine owne fence hath goared a Cow of your Worships.
1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle ii. sig. D2 There has bene a pitch-field my child betweene the naughty Spaniels [sc. Spaniards] and the English-men.
a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 389 A most vile, flagitious man, a sorry and naughty Governour as could be.
1699 T. Cockman tr. Cicero Offices iii. viii. 257 'Tis a villanous Error of some naughty Men.
1740 Diary A. Brodie 122 So profan, dissolut and naghtie.
b. Immoral, licentious, promiscuous, sexually provocative. In later use ironically in weakened sense. Cf. naught pron. 2b.
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1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet 85 Dayly dyd the naughty nurce New argumentes inuent.
1607 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (new ed.) xxviii. 230 Euill will..Mou'd him of all the kind to speake so ill, Belike for some one naughtie womans sake.
a1628 F. Greville Cælica xii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 168 Cupid, thou naughtie Boy, when thou wert loathed, Naked and blind, for Vagabunding noted.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife ii. 17 Ay, my Dear, you must love me only, and not be like the naughty Town Women, who only hate their Husbands, and love every Man else..and so lead a wicked Town-life.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xvi. 124 I am a Woman as well as yourself..and if I have been a little naughty, I am not the first. View more context for this quotation
a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 20 He agreed with the Captain of a New York Sloop for my Passage, under the Notion of my being a young Acquaintance of his that had got a naughty Girl with Child.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 7 O naughty Nancy Lake! Thus to distress your aunt.
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. ii. 61 But she,—the naughty baggage,—little will she care what they put upon the bodice of her gown!
1950 T. H. Raddall Halifax: Warden of North xiv. 110 Halifax was full of naughty women, ranging all the way from the unwashed sluts of Barrack Street to the elegant wife of Mr John Wentworth.
1991 Twenty Twenty Spring 44/1 You will find little other than stories of naughty vicars running off with, or violating their parishioners.
c. Mischievous, disobedient, badly behaved.Used esp. of a child, but also humorously or depreciatively of an adult or an adult's behaviour.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > of children
wanton1533
shrewd1548
naughtya1633
bratty1961
a1633 G. Herbert Jacula Prudentum in Wks. (1857) 309 A naughty child is better sick than whole.
1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 147 Go, get you gone, naughty girl, you are well enough.
1778 F. Burney Let. Sept. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. III. (1994) My sweet, naughty Mrs. Thrale looked delighted for me.
1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. lxxii. 291 But then it is so pleasant to feel oneself to be naughty!
1889 Sat. Rev. 23 Feb. 210/2 When a champion of Home Rule behaves like a very naughty child.
1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. xvi. 170 I love her when she's naughty.
1946 W. H. Auden Table Talk 16 Nov. in A. Ansen & N. Jenkins Table Talk of W. H. Auden (1990) 23 Dostoyevsky is such a great and such a naughty genius with his Pan-Slavism.
1993 Guardian 15 Oct. i. 20/8 Only Lilley and Redwood, like naughty schoolboys, try to move the Euro-goalposts still further.
d. Reduplicated for emphasis, in senses 2b and 2c. Frequently as int., as a mild reprimand.Often with ironic or depreciative connotation, esp. of adult behaviour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebukes [phrase]
go1577
naughty1847
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. iv. 87 This is your last ride, till papa comes back. I'll not trust you over the threshold again, you naughty, naughty girl.
1882 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 4 Nov. 10/1 Those naughty naughty parsons up and at it again.
1938 I. Goldberg Wonder of Words viii. 150 To a child..we say, ‘Nightie-nightie.’ Or, if it has been mischievous, ‘Naughty-naughty.’
1946 ‘G. Orwell’ Crit. Ess. 127 The naughty-naughty touches in Dali's autobiography.
2001 Independent (Electronic ed.) 23 Feb. Naughty, naughty! Back to your old tricks, are you? So, when's this new baby due?
3. Of a thing, action, etc.
a. Originally: morally bad, wicked, blameworthy; cf. noughty adj. 1 (now archaic and rare). In later use: involving or characterized by mischief or disobedience; spec. improper, indecent, titillating.
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society > morality > moral evil > [adjective]
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missOE
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?a1500 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archeol. Soc. (1900) 23 207 (MED) The naughty lyf that the said Constance, his second wyf, lyved in with bisshop Wayvile and with other.
1536 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 38 Half of that whiche hath ben there rather spoyled from hym by naughty meanes.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxvij Naughtie and Pestilent bokes should be burned.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. i. 74 It is a naughty house. View more context for this quotation
1631 E. Reeve Christian Divinitie xxxv. 80 Ye be called..to seeke for Christs sheepe that be dispersed abroad, and for his children which be in the middest of this naughty world, to be saued through Christ for euer.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 207 This naughty and impious discourse.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. i. 35 I am sure she would not do a naughty thing.
1740 W. Seward Jrnl. 3 To prepare us for going abroad into a naughty World.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 661 A time when rough, rude man had naughty ways.
1861 G. Finlay Hist. Greek Revol. I. i. iii. 74 Euphrosyne..had neglected the study of the lives of the saints, and turned her attention to the naughty reading in the Greek classics.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. iv. 90 It was very naughty of her, she felt aware.
1884 World 20 Aug. 5/2 Democracy is a naughty word.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xi. 111 Another day I asked them all to tell me the naughtiest thing they had ever done.
1964 G. Sims Dreadful Door xxiii. 124 He..took naughty photos of them and then blacked them.
1976 R. Green in V. Randolph Pissing in Snow Introd. p. xvi In a world deluged with X-rated films, bottomless bars, and leather shops, it seems rather quaint to defend a scholarly manuscript which contains stories some think naughty.
1990 S. S. Tepper Raising Stones ii. ii. 240 Did you find any evidence of malfeasance, misfeasance, naughty doings?
b. naughty but nice: designating something regarded playfully as bad, reprehensible, or immoral, but also enjoyable (chiefly predicative; also attributive with hyphens).
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1871 A. Lloyd in ‘It's Naughty but it's Nice’ Songster 12 At the charming game of Croquet I have been her partner twice; I love her, ain't it naughty—Well, it's naughty , but it's nice.
1877 Galaxy Aug. 281 ‘It's naughty, but it's nice’, as a popular song says.
1883 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 13 Jan. 6/3 It's naughty but it's nice.]
1887 O. W. Holmes Let. 15 May (1896) II. 312 I vow I shall have to get up Juvenal or Catullus, naughty but nice, or somebody that nobody else knows.
1927 Times 20 Dec. 12/6 New Gallery. Regent-street... Colleen Moore in ‘Naughty but Nice’.
1971 Times 12 Aug. 6/6 (caption) 3 naughty-but-nice porcelain figures in beach costume by Goldschneider.
1977 Forbes (Nexis) 1 June 29 A drug scandal dimmed somewhat the naughty-but-nice Hefner image.
1997 Independent 19 Dec. 7/2 Sometimes people consume enjoyable substances such as naughty but nice food and drink but feel guilty about it.
a. Bad, inferior, substandard, worthless. In Scottish use also: unsubstantial, insignificant. Cf. noughty adj. 3b. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective]
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abysmal1904
bodgie1905
junk1908
crap1936
ropy1941
bodger1945
two-star1951
tripey1955
manky1958
schlocky1960
cack1978
wank1991
bowf1994
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]
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1526 W. Tyndale Wks. (1848) I. 510 As this is a naughty argument, so is the other.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 10 §2 Putting the same naughtie ware to sale secretly.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D7v Some put in naughty wool, and cause it to be spun & drawne into a very small thred.
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. i. i. ii. 381 Thou wilt not haue bad corne, bad soile, a naughty tree, but all good.
a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) III. 288 His defences were naughtie and frivolous.
1696 in J. Aubrey Misc. (1721) 211 A shadowy Substance, or such naughty, and Imperceptible thing, as can..scarcely be discerned by the Eye.
1729 J. Steuart Let. 14 July in Let.-bk. (1915) 332 A Buckdealling to Wm. Beany, which I sold in the Highlands for tenn shillings, the Dealls being werry naughtie, and scarce good for nothing except Lath for plaster.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 245 There may happen to be a piece of naughty land,..whose barren appearance is an eyesore.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 521 The tenants..have a very few sheep of an inferior naughty size.
b. Of food or drink: of bad quality, unwholesome, unfit for consumption. Cf. naught adj. 1c. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > unwholesome
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contagious?a1500
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxiv. 2 In the other maunds were very naughtie figes, which might not be eaten.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. v. 103 Peccant humours..doe proceed of naughty meat.
1685 J. Chamberlayne tr. P. S. Dufour Manner of making Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate 43 I perceive, that it [sc. the tea] is commonly very old and naughty.
1896 A. D. Coleridge Eton in Forties 209 The bigaroon cherries..were fraudulent, sour, and naughty throughout.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective]
starkOE
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1541 T. Wyatt Declar. in K. Muir Life & Lett. (1963) 183 Commynge in a bott frome Aquas Mortis, bothe in hasarde of the Mores and naughtie wether.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 100 Prithe Nunckle be content, this is a naughty night to swim in. View more context for this quotation
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. viii. 178 You are right, Caxon; this is a naughty night to swim in.
a. Harmful, pernicious; undesirable. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious
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orneOE
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damaging1856
damnous1870
lethal1942
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective] > inherently
unkindc1400
naughtya1555
a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 402 As with the good corn naughty cockle and barren weeds do spring together.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 404 Naughtie poyson [impia venena] is hid with sweete honye or suger.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxiii. 142 Touching the Saltpeter.., its naughty humidity is to be taken from it.
b. Bad or unfavourable for something. Cf. naught pron. 3. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > to or for some thing or person
grievous1398
nought1532
naughty1573
poisonousa1616
venomousa1616
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 51v Ground, grauely, sandy, & mixed with clay, is naughty for hops.
a. Unhealthy; connected with or characteristic of ill health. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective]
morbous?a1425
unsoundc1540
naughty1572
sick1597
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morbifica1691
morbose1692
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pathic1846
1572 Abp. M. Parker Let. 13 Dec. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 412 In better health than I in a naughty body feel.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 56 The juyce..draweth downe from the head phlegmatike and naughtie humors.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 138 It heateth the bodie, ingendreth naughtie blood.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 12 Then followeth a Feaver, and a Troup of most naughty symptoms.
b. Of a bodily ailment, etc.: bad, severe. Obsolete.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xiii. 21 Butter Burre..cureth all naughty Ulcers.
1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. iv. 9 They..do cause a rotten ulcer and naughty Scar.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cclxxxiii Being mixed with Tar it cureth the naughty scurfe of the Head.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective]
uglyc1540
grievous1578
naughty1578
unrelishable1603
unrelishing1611
unsapory1638
insapory1665
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant
loatha700
unsweetc890
grimlyc893
unquemeOE
un-i-quemeOE
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sourc1175
illc1220
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disagreeable1570
offensible1575
offensive1576
naughty1578
delightlessa1586
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undelightsomec1595
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ungrateful1596
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unrelishing1611
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disrelishing1631
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mirya1652
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sweet1656
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insuave1657
unpalatable1658
unhandsome1660
undesirable1667
disrelishablea1670
uncouthsome1684
shocking1703
nasty1705
embittering1746
indelectable1751
undelightinga1774
nice and ——1796
unenjoyablea1797
ungenial1796
uncomplacent1805
ungracious1807
bitter1810
rotten1813
uncongenial1813
quarrelsome1825
grimy1833
nice1836
unrelished1863
bloody1867
unbewitching1876
ferocious1877
displeasurable1879
rebarbative1892
charming1893
crook1898
naar1900
peppery1901
negative1902
poisonous1906
off-putting1935
unsympathetic1937
piggy1942
funky1946
umpty1948
pooey1967
minging1970
Scrooge-like1976
sucky1984
stank1991
stanky1991
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxv. 176 Both in their leaues and floures of a naughtie, strong, & vnpleasant sauour.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. l. 324 Boxe in as much as it is of a naughtie smell,..is to be left of and not dealt withall.
9. Designating a place where a child may be sent to stand or sit in isolation when misbehaving. Chiefly in naughty corner. Also in figurative contexts. See also naughty step n. at Compounds 3.
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1829 Morning Jrnl. 6 July 3/4 Our big children very seldom play pretty..and have grown so strong that all attempts at putting them in the naughty corner are vain.
1836 Patriot 17 Oct. 412/1 On some fitting occasion, I shall be quite ready to vindicate myself, or to put the rest of my calumniators into the ‘naughty corner’ beside the Bishop of London.
1954 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 6 June b1/6 For minor offenses, the children are made to sit on a ‘naughty chair’.
1974 J. Brothers in Good Housek. June 58/2 You can reinforce the command by punishment, such as standing the child in a ‘naughty corner.’
1994 USA Today (Nexis) 20 May 2 c This..is the woman who was dispatched to major league baseball's official naughty corner last year after investigators found she often used language that was ‘racially and ethnically insensitive’.
2012 K. Phillip Who runs your House? 82 If they continue getting up or walking away from your naughty spot place them back and advise them they will stay there longer if they get up again.
Compounds
C1. With the sense ‘morally bad’, as naughty-hearted, naughty minded, naughty tongued, etc.
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1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 28 Certaine naughtie tongued fellowes vnder the maske of modestie saie they will not name him whom they reprehend.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Nn6 For the naughtie minded wretches.
1926 D. H. Lawrence David xi. 75 He was ever heady, naughty-hearted.
C2. With the sense ‘improper, indecent; licentious’.
naughty bits n. colloquial (chiefly humorous) the genitals, esp. those of a male.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]
shapea1000
shameOE
i-cundeOE
memberc1300
privy memberc1325
kindc1330
privitiesc1375
harness1382
shameful parts1382
genitoriesa1387
partc1390
tailc1390
genitalsa1393
thingc1405
genitalc1450
privy parts1533
secret1535
loin?1541
genitures1548
filthy parts1553
shamefulness1561
ware1561
meatc1564
natural places1569
secret members1577
lady ware1592
natural parts1601
lady's ware1608
gear1611
private parts1623
groin1631
pudendums1634
natural1650
privacies1656
sex1664
secrecyc1675
nudities1677
affair1749
sexual parts1753
person1824
sex organ1847
privates1940
naughty bits1972
1972 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) II. xxviii. 68 Well here is a three-stage model of Tchaikowsky... And this is the main trunk..incorporating of course the naughty bits, which were extremely naughty for his time.
1992 Daily Mirror (BNC) Magazines are allowed to show a man's naughty bits only if they resemble a map of the Mull of Kintyre.
2018 Sunday Times 11 Mar. (Business section) 15 According to the active herpes people, two-thirds of the world's population have incurable sores on their lips or naughty bits.
naughty nineties n. the 1890s considered as a period of moral laxity and sexual licence; also in extended use.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > specific centuries, decades, or years > fin de siècle
nineties1853
Gay Nineties1925
naughty nineties1925
1925 R. Le Gallienne Romantic '90s iv. 162 ‘The '90s’ are usually spoken of as if they had only one colour: the ‘yellow’ '90s, or the ‘naughty’ '90s, or the ‘decadent’ '90s.
1930 W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman 1066 & All That lix. 111 Oscar Wilde..was the leader of a set of disgusting old gentlemen called ‘the naughty nineties’.
1976 L. Henderson Major Enq. xii. 78 You know, Mildred, you were born out of your time, you really belong to the naughty nineties.
1991 C. Jennings Now we are Thirty-something (BNC) 36 A certain low-rent wine bar she frequents (Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women).
C3.
naughty step n. chiefly British a step, stool, etc., on which a child may be instructed to sit in isolation when misbehaving; the use of this as a disciplinary technique intended to modify behaviour by enforcing a period of solitary reflection.Recorded earliest in figurative context.In later use chiefly associated with Jo Frost (b. 1971) and her television programme Supernanny (first broadcast in 2004).
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1996 Independent 15 May 2/3 MPs who interrupt and shout will be made to sit on the naughty step.
1998 Re: Can Anybody tell Me in alt.callahans (Usenet newsgroups) 2 Nov. Once Erin bit her... She had to sit on the naughty step until she apologized.
2004 Times (Nexis) 1 July (Times2 section) 4 Frost warns Charlie that further cutlery abuse will result in him being put on the ‘naughty step’.
2006 Express (Nexis) 27 Sept. 10 The two-year-old's mother..told the hearing that she used the naughty-step technique herself.
2013 J. Frost Toddler SOS 29 I'm really pleased that you are doing the Naughty Step correctly.
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naughtyv.
/ˈnɔːti/, U.S. /ˈnɔdi/, /ˈnɑdi/, Australian English /ˈnɔːti/, /ˈnɔːdi/, New Zealand English /ˈnoːdi/ Australian and New Zealand slang. rare.
transitive. To have sexual intercourse with (someone). Occasionally also intransitive.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with
mingeOE
haveOE
knowc1175
ofliec1275
to lie with (or by)a1300
knowledgec1300
meetc1330
beliea1350
yknowc1350
touchc1384
deala1387
dightc1386
usea1387
takec1390
commona1400
to meet witha1400
servea1400
occupy?a1475
engender1483
jangle1488
to be busy with1525
to come in1530
visitc1540
niggle1567
mow1568
to mix one's thigh with1593
do1594
grind1598
pepper1600
yark1600
tumble1603
to taste of1607
compressc1611
jumble1611
mix?1614
consort?1615
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bumfiddle1630
ingressa1631
sheet1637
carnal1643
night-work1654
bump1669
bumble1680
frig?c1680
fuck1707
stick1707
screw1719
soil1722
to do over1730
shag1770
hump1785
subagitatec1830
diddle1879
to give (someone) onec1882
charver1889
fuckeec1890
plugc1890
dick1892
to make a baby1911
to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912
jazz1920
rock1922
yentz1924
roll1926
to make love1927
shtupa1934
to give (or get) a tumble1934
shack1935
bang1937
to have it off1937
rump1937
tom1949
to hop into bed (with)1951
ball1955
to make it1957
plank1958
score1960
naughty1961
pull1965
pleasurea1967
to have away1968
to have off1968
dork1970
shaft1970
bonk1975
knob1984
boink1985
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1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1195/2 Naughty, v.: To coït with... ‘He naughties her.’
1977 C. Klein Pomegranate Tree 61 Last thing he had on his mind was to try and naughty her.
1983 R. Hughes in Time (Nexis) 28 Mar. 42 Forcing the lad to drown..while his sister is busy naughtying with a German diplomat.
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naughtyadv.
/ˈnɔːti/, U.S. /ˈnɔdi/, /ˈnɑdi/ rare.† 1. Unsatisfactorily, in an inferior manner. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfittingness > [adverb] > and naughty
naughty1586
1586 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husb. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 169 The vnfruitfull and naughtie [1577 noughty] coloured, and the otherwyse faultie, ought cheefely to be fatted.
1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 142 He looked a reg'lar dook. He'd a pair o' lavinder-coloured bell-bottom trowsis, cut werry naughty.
2. Naughtily, improperly; wickedly.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adverb]
wrongc1175
unworthlyc1200
unkindly?c1225
ungraithlya1300
wrongly1303
unconablya1340
unworthily1377
ungoodlyc1380
uncovenablya1382
improperly1390
falsely1393
unduly1399
unseemlya1400
unsittinglyc1412
unorderly1471
induly1483
unseemlily1483
ungainlya1500
uncomely?1518
unmeetly1533
unconveniently1538
wrongfully?1549
uncomelily1561
undecently1563
indecently1589
unproperly1604
unbeseemingly1617
viciously1617
unseemingly1619
misbecominglya1625
unbeseeming1645
unbecomingly1653
invalidly1705
naughty1892
1892 Overland Monthly Sept. 318 Father's little girl mustn't cry, or act naughty any more.
1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. 228 The child behaved naughty.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 426 Naughty cruel I was.
1999 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 13 Nov. (Living section) 61 Men aren't the only ones who act naughty on the radio.
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n.a1460
adj.int.c1400
v.1961
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