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Definition: Waggishness |
WaggishnessNoun1. Waggish behavior. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "waggishness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonym: WaggishnessSynonym: waggery (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wit | Jocularity; jocosity, jocoseness; facetiousness; waggery, waggishness; whimsicality; comicality. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "waggishness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | αστειότησ (humorousness, jocularity, ludicrousness), αστειότητα (humorousness, jocularity, ludicrousness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tréfálkozás (game, jape, jesting, rollicking, waggery), mókázás (frolic, pantaloonery, rollicking), móka (crap, Dido, drollery, fun, game, joke, jollity, pantaloonery, skylark), bolondozás (clowning, foolery, frolic, jocosity, jocularity, kid, waggery), bohóság (buffoonery, waggery). (various references) | |
Manx | ranneeid (roguishness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aggishnessway.(various references) | |
Turkish | şakacılık (facetiousness, humorousness, jocosity, jocularity, playfulness, pleasantry, waggery), şaka (badinage, banter, chaff, drollery, fun, game, hell, humor, humour, jest, joke, lark, monkeyshiness, pleasantry, quiz, sport, waggery, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính tinh nghịch (roguery, roguishness), tính bông đùa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "waggishness": waggishnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-i-n-s-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: shagginess. | |
-3 letters: ashiness, gassings, haggises, hessians, signages, swaggies, swashing, washings. | |
-4 letters: ageings, assigns, gashing, gassing, geishas, gnashes, hessian, sanseis, sashing, sassing, sewings, shawing, shewing, signage, snashes, swaggie, swaging, swashes, swinges, swishes, waggish, wahines, washing, whinges, wiseass. | |
-5 letters: ageing, aggies, agings, anises, ashing, assign, aweigh, aweing, easing, gaeing, gashes, gasses, gawsie, geisha, gneiss, haeing, haggis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-h-i-n-s-s-s-w" | |
+2 letters: waggishnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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