Waggish

Definition: Waggish

Waggish

Adjective

1. Witty or joking; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James Fenimore Cooper.

Date "waggish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Slang in 1811	WAGGISH. Arch, gamesome, frolicsome. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonym: Waggish

Synonym: jocose. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cheerfulness	Playful, playsome; folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking.
Wit	Adjective: witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato; comic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Waggish

English words defined with "waggish": waggery, waggishly, waggishness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "waggish": WAGGISH. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Max: The Tale of a Waggish Dog: This Sotry Reflects the Life of a Real Dog: Its Human Characters, Though, Are Not to Be Identified With Any persons (reference) Skewed Views: An Impish, Puckish, Even Waggish Collection of Ditzy Cartoons (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then.
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"Waggish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Waggish" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	80%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Expression using "waggish": droll waggish. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "waggish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shakaxhi (funnyman, funster, jester, joker, mountebank, quiz, wag), me shaka (facetiously, in jest, in play, playfully, tongue in cheek, waggishly), lozonjar (playful, skittish, sportful), hokatar (facetious, prankish, punster). (various references)

Arabic		‏مولع بالمزاح, ‏مزوح (frolicsome, humorous, jocular), ‏مزاح (badinage, banter, fun, jest, joke, kidding, lark, playfulness, pleasantries, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, waggery, wagging), ‏هزلي (burlesque, comic, comical, doggie, farcical, funny, humorous, joker, prankish, priceless, quizzical). (various references)

Bulgarian		шеговит (facetious, frolic, humorous, jesting, jocose, joky, macaronic, merry, pleasant, prankish, quizzical, sportful, tricksy), закачлив (chaffy, facetious, jesting, kittenish, larky, perky, playful, pleasant, roguish, skittish, sly, troublesome). (various references)

Czech		ètverácký (arch, roguish). (various references)

Farsi		مهمل (Nonsense, Preposterous, Trash, Trashy), خنده دار (Comic, Gig, Hilarious, Laughable, Queer, Ridiculous), الواط, شوخ وشنگ (Gaily), شوخ (Blithe, Gay, Jester, Jocose, Jocular, Jocularity, Joker, Mower, Quizzical, Witty), بذله گو (Humorist, Joker, Jolly, Rogue, Witty). (various references)

French		facétieux (wagging), badin. (various references)

German		schelmisch (airy-fairy, arch, frolic, frolicsome, impish, mischievous, mischievously, petulant, playful, playfully, skittish, skittishly, waggishly), schalkhaft (airy-fairy, frolic, frolicsome, mischievous, petulant, roguish, waggishly). (various references)

Greek		ευτράπελοσ (facetious, jocular). (various references)

Hebrew		ליצ� י. (various references)

Hungarian		huncut (elfin, elfish, impish, mischievous, perky, rogue, roguish). (various references)

Italian		scherzoso (gamesome, jocular, joking, laughing, mock, playful, sportive). (various references)

Manx		ranneeagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		aggishway

Portuguese		faceto (facial), divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gander, gay, hilarity, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive), cômico (bouffe, buffo, comedian, comic, comical, funny, humorist, humourist, laughable), brincalhão (frisky, frolic, gamesome, hoity toity, jesting, jesuit, jocular, joker, joky, kittenish, larmier, mischievous, playful, prankish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references)

Romanian		poznaş (arch, elfish, funny, prankish, rogue, roguish, scapegrace, tricksy, tricky, wag, wanton, wit), mucalit (jester, jestful, jesting, joker, pawkily, pawky, wag), hazliu (amusing, comic, droll, entertaining, funny, gamesome, humorous, laughable), hâtru (wag), şugubãţ (funny). (various references)

Russian		шаловливый (frolicsome, impish, monkeyish, playful, prankish, roguish), комичный (comic, comical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vragolast (mischievous, monkeyish, playful, tricksy), šaljiv (facetious, frolicsome, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky). (various references)

Spanish		chacotero (joker). (various references)

Swedish		skälmsk (arch, mischievous, roguish), skälmaktig (arch, mischievous, roguish). (various references)

Turkish		nükteli (epigrammatic, humoristic, humorous, rich, spicy, spirited, witty), muzip (buffoon, hoaxer, prankish, puckish, quizzical, rogue, sly, teasing, tormenting, tricksy, wicked), şakacı (banterer, bel esprit, buffoon, facetious, funster, humorist, humoristic, jester, jesting, jocose, jocular, joker, playful, puckish, quizzical, wag, wisecracker), şaka yollu (jestingly, jokingly, tongue in cheek). (various references)

Ukranian		жартівний (macaronic), жартівливий (burlesque, gamesome, jesting, jocular, joky, playful, playsome, sportful, sportive), пустотливий (airy, arch, coltish, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, wanton, whisky), дотепний (attic, brainy, cute, dodgy, facetious, ingenious, jocular, nimble, nimble-witted, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, spiritual, witty). (various references)

Vietnamese		nói đùa; tinh nghịch. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "waggish": waggishly, waggishness, waggishnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Waggish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baggyish, eggish, Wagagai, waggiest, wagish, Wargasm. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "waggish" (pronounced 'Wag"gish'): Doggish, Dreggish, Haggish, hoggish, Jiggish, largish, Muggish, Niggish, Piggish, Priggish, Riggish, sluggish, Whiggish. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-h-i-s-w"
	-1 letter: haggis.
	-2 letters: gigas, whigs, wisha.
	-3 letters: gags, gash, ghis, giga, gigs, hags, haws, shag, shaw, sigh, swag, swig, wags, wash, whig, wigs, wish.
	-4 letters: ais, ash, gag, gas, ghi, gig, hag, has, haw, his, sag, saw, sha, wag, was, wha, wig, wis.
	-5 letters: ag, ah, ai, as, aw, ha, hi, is, sh, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-h-i-s-w"
	+2 letters: waggishly.
	+4 letters: waggishness.
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