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PRANKISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prankishness mean?
• PRANKISHNESS (noun)
The noun PRANKISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks
Familiarity information: PRANKISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trait of indulging in disreputable pranks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
prankishness; rascality; roguishness
Hypernyms ("prankishness" is a kind of...):
badness; mischievousness; naughtiness (an attribute of mischievous children)
Derivation:
prankish (naughtily or annoyingly playful)
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"Next to fire, straw isn't good." (Corsican proverb)