prankstern.

Brit.

/ˈpraŋkstə/, U.S.

/ˈpræŋkstər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prank n.², -ster suffix.

Etymology: < prank n.² + -ster suffix. Compare earlier pranker n.²With pranksterish adj. at Derivatives compare earlier prankish adj.

A person who plays pranks; a hoaxer, a practical joker.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner

japer1362

practiser1545

practitioner1560

amuser1583

fopper1659

hummer1763

prankster1811

hoaxer1814

puck1823

practical joker1830

pranking1852

card1853

leg-puller1887

kidder1888

pranker1890

codologist1897

spoofer1914

wind-up artist1984

1811 T. Edgeworth Shipwreck 9 Every circumstance..(except that one of which he himself was ignorant; namely, the identity of that prankster in the watch-house for whom he had so long stood the persecuted proxy).

1824 ‘B. Truck’ Man-of-war's-man in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 313/2 What does he do, think ye, but leaves a' thing to gae hither and yont, and away he rins after this prankster himsel.

1894 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 19 Dec. 7/2 Mr. Smith is now 74 years old and as hale and hearty as the youngest prankster on the floor [of the New York stock exchange].

1910 Los Angeles Times 5 Nov. ii. 2/3 Two Halloween pranksters..were arrested Wednesday evening..for hoisting a dilapidated wagon on to the roof of a vacant bungalow.

1940 O. Nash Face is Familiar (1942) 14 There is at least one thing I would less rather have in the neighbourhood than a gangster, And that one thing is a practical prankster.

1969 Daily Tel. 14 Nov. 36/4 Police admitted that it was an almost impossible task..to sift the bomb pranksters from the deadly serious ones.

2002 Guardian 4 Nov. (Media section) 36/1 Subviral campaigns are carefully shot to seem like they were produced by an internet prankster.

Derivatives

ˈpranksterish adj.

ΚΠ

1956 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 24 May 5/8 Police Judge William Roach made the punishment fit the crime for three pranksterish college students.

2002 Big Issue 11 Nov. 27/1 A king-size old-school radical with a taste for pranksterish stunts who gets away with it by sheer dint of energy and charm.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prankster
释义	prankstern. Brit. /ˈpraŋkstə/, U.S. /ˈpræŋkstər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prank n.², -ster suffix. Etymology: < prank n.² + -ster suffix. Compare earlier pranker n.²With pranksterish adj. at Derivatives compare earlier prankish adj. A person who plays pranks; a hoaxer, a practical joker. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner japer1362 practiser1545 practitioner1560 amuser1583 fopper1659 hummer1763 prankster1811 hoaxer1814 puck1823 practical joker1830 pranking1852 card1853 leg-puller1887 kidder1888 pranker1890 codologist1897 spoofer1914 wind-up artist1984 1811 T. Edgeworth Shipwreck 9 Every circumstance..(except that one of which he himself was ignorant; namely, the identity of that prankster in the watch-house for whom he had so long stood the persecuted proxy). 1824 ‘B. Truck’ Man-of-war's-man in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 313/2 What does he do, think ye, but leaves a' thing to gae hither and yont, and away he rins after this prankster himsel. 1894 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 19 Dec. 7/2 Mr. Smith is now 74 years old and as hale and hearty as the youngest prankster on the floor [of the New York stock exchange]. 1910 Los Angeles Times 5 Nov. ii. 2/3 Two Halloween pranksters..were arrested Wednesday evening..for hoisting a dilapidated wagon on to the roof of a vacant bungalow. 1940 O. Nash Face is Familiar (1942) 14 There is at least one thing I would less rather have in the neighbourhood than a gangster, And that one thing is a practical prankster. 1969 Daily Tel. 14 Nov. 36/4 Police admitted that it was an almost impossible task..to sift the bomb pranksters from the deadly serious ones. 2002 Guardian 4 Nov. (Media section) 36/1 Subviral campaigns are carefully shot to seem like they were produced by an internet prankster. Derivatives ˈpranksterish adj. ΚΠ 1956 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 24 May 5/8 Police Judge William Roach made the punishment fit the crime for three pranksterish college students. 2002 Big Issue 11 Nov. 27/1 A king-size old-school radical with a taste for pranksterish stunts who gets away with it by sheer dint of energy and charm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1811
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