Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to or characterized by impishness or playfulness; mischievous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mischievous; frolicsome; full of pranks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of pranks; frolicsome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Given to or characterized by
impishness orplayfulness ;mischievous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective naughtily or annoyingly playful
Etymologies
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Examples
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That too is a heck of a stretch, while ignoring the nooses as "prankish" or whatever the call was to let it go.
Jena: A Request 2007
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I gotta admit, this is kinda funny in a fratboy prankish sort of way.
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Leingruber has already designed several artistic, prankish and borderline illegal browser extensions, including the China Channel, which lets you experience the Internet as if you were in China, and Pirates of the Amazon, which let Amazon browsers easily download for free the products they were thinking of buying.
Claire Gordon: The Anti-Facebook Revolution Claire Gordon 2011
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For all its prankish blurring of the lines between author/character and reality/invention, the book finally does present a compelling and complete account of the life of "Michael Martone," an account that really coheres around the other character introduced in that first Contributor's Note, MM's mother, and the city of Fort Wayne.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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The gorgeously mounted show by English street artist D*Face is fuel injected with Pop vernacular while kidnapping some Pop masters of the last half century with prankish lo- to mid-brow witticism.
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: D*Face 'Going Nowhere Fast' In Los Angeles Jaime Rojo 2011
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Creative Review has details on the tech behind the prankish miracle.
Boing Boing 2009
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Leingruber has already designed several artistic, prankish and borderline illegal browser extensions, including the China Channel, which lets you experience the Internet as if you were in China, and Pirates of the Amazon, which let Amazon browsers easily download for free the products they were thinking of buying.
Claire Gordon: The Anti-Facebook Revolution Claire Gordon 2011
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The gorgeously mounted show by English street artist D*Face is fuel injected with Pop vernacular while kidnapping some Pop masters of the last half century with prankish lo- to mid-brow witticism.
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: D*Face 'Going Nowhere Fast' In Los Angeles Jaime Rojo 2011
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The motivation appears to be entirely nasty and prankish.
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He credited his prankish side with keeping him young, fond as he was for pulling practical jokes on his co-stars and directors.
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