puckish

puck·ish

P p

Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [puhk-ish]
- /ˈpʌk ɪʃ/
- /ˈpʌk.ɪʃ/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [puhk-ish]
- /ˈpʌk ɪʃ/

Definitions of puckish word

adjective puckish mischievous; impish. 1
adjective puckish If you describe someone as puckish, you mean that they play tricks on people or tease them. 0
adjective puckish full of mischief; impish 0

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Origin of puckish

First appearance:

before 1870

One of the 26% newest English words

First recorded in 1870-75; Puck + -ish1

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Parts of speech for Puckish

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Puckish

puckish popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 51% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

puckish usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for puckish

adj puckish

coltish — A young person or animal that is coltish is full of energy but clumsy or awkward, because they lack physical skill or control.
dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
gamesome — playful; frolicsome.
ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
impish — mischievous.

adjective puckish

elfin — (with reference to a person) small and delicate, typically with an attractively mischievous or strange charm.
elvish — Of or having to do with elves.

adverb puckish

impishly — In an impish manner; mischievously.

noun puckish

impishness — The state or quality of being impish; mischievousness.

All 10 Synonyms of puckish