prankyadj.
/ˈpraŋki/, U.S. /ˈpræŋki/ Now colloquial.
Inclined to, or characterized by, the playing of pranks; mischievous, lively, playful.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adjective]
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rampish1530
frolic?1548
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hoiting1594
tricksy1598
tida1641
frolickish1660
romping1662
hoity-toity1690
rompish1696
frolicsome1699
friskful1728
highty-tighty1737
frolicky1748
prankish1776
rollicking1786
prankfula1795
pranksome1810
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espiègle1816
larkish1823
skylarking1826
larking1828
rompy1838
larky1841
rollicksome1841
Pucklike1845
rollicky1846
frolicful1848
larksome1871
puckish1874
horseplayish1882
frolicking1887
tricksical1889
shenaniganning1924
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. iii. sig. E.jv So, that is somewhat like, but prankie cote, nay whan, That is a lustie brute, handes vnder your side man.
1824 Brit. Guardian 2 June 170/2 His wit is buffoonery—his mirth, the mischievous and pranky petulance of an ill-governed school boy.
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 10 The strangest and most curious pranky little beings that ever were born.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Sept. 6/1 Merely a demonstration of pranky lawlessness.
1899 Overland Monthly Nov. 441/2 The pranky Fates had cheated him of his woman.
1914 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 17 Mar. 4/7 When I was young and slender, a spender, a lender, What gentleman adventurer was prankier than I.
1989 Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 23 Oct. p. A3/6 Most of it's more pranky than vandalism.
2004 USA Today (Nexis) 5 Nov. (Life section) 1 It appears to be too sophisticated, when in fact it's a very pranky, pratfall show.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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