| 单词 | prankster |
| 释义 | prankster (once / 36593 pages) n A prankster is someone who loves to play tricks or practical jokes. If your house gets rolled in the night, a prankster hung toilet paper all over the trees in your yard. Congratulations? To be a prankster, you need a mischievous sense of humor and enough imagination to dream up practical jokes. You could glue a ten-dollar bill to the floor, change your sister's computer settings to Portuguese, or leave your fake bug collection on your teacher's chair. These tricks or hoaxes are also called pranks, the origin of prankster, which probably stems from the obsolete verb prank, "decorate or dress up." WORD FAMILYprankster: pranksters+/prank: pranked, pranking, prankish, pranks, prankster/prankish: prankishly, prankishness USAGE EXAMPLESThe stunt was a throwback to Jan. 1, 1976, when the prankster Daniel N. Finegood altered the letters in the same way. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) “He was very playful and a prankster,” Ms. Brown said. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) Despite a busy political agenda, Biden’s found time to be an in-demand television cameo star, an unofficial ambassador for aviator sunglasses, and everyone’s favorite prankster. Time(Dec 06, 2016) n someone who plays practical jokes on others Syn|Hyper cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler someone who deliberately stirs up trouble |
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