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Mischief-making

Definition: Mischief-making

Mischief-making

Noun

1. Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mischief-making" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)


Synonyms: Mischief-making

Synonyms: devilment (n), devilry (n), deviltry (n), mischief (n), mischievousness (n), rascality (n), roguery (n), roguishness (n), shenanigan (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mischief-making

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inexpedience

Adjective: hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome; prejudicial; disserviceable, disadvantageous; wide-wasting.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mischief-making

Specialty definitions using "mischief-making": Ascalaphos. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Mischief-making

"Mischief-making" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Mischief-making" is used about 7 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)71.43%5157,705
Adjective (general or positive)28.57%2245,945
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mischief-making

Language Translations for "mischief-making"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

淘"做. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

개구장이 조. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ischief-makingmay

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự gây bất ho . (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Mischief-making"

Words rhyming with "mischief-making" (pronounced 'Mis"chief-mak`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Findfaulting, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, heartrending, high-sounding, Home-coming. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Mischief-making

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-h-i-i-i-k-m-m-n-s"

-5 letters: famishing, immeshing, magnifies, mechanism, mimicking, misaiming, mismaking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mischief-making


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 73 63 68 69 65 66 2D 6D 61 6B 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100101 01100110 00101101 01101101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#104 &#105 &#101 &#102 &#45 &#109 &#97 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0073 0063 0068 0069 0065 0066 002D 006D 0061 006B 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

477585697475717215796777758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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