[1820–30; prank1 + -ish1]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, insider, morphology, phonetic, tetrapod-ish is a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”(British; Danish; English; Spanish); “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (babyish; girlish; mulish); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” (bookish; freakish); “near or about” (fiftyish; sevenish)
Examples of 'prankish' in a sentence
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Denied direct expression, the pair's love powers a feud of point-scoring repartee and prankish acts of sabotage.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In our family he was the one that was playful, almost unruly, and often prankish.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Too bad that a couple of the shorts are little more than prankish writing exercises.