Mischief

Definition: Mischief

Mischief

Noun

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

2. The quality or nature of being harmful or evil.

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

Date "mischief" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Mischief

Deterioration

Damnify; (aggrieve); do one's worst; knock down; deal a blow to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil among; decimate.

Evil

Noun: evil, ill, harm, hurt., mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.

Inexpedience

Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage.

Do mischief, make mischief; bring into trouble.

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.

Crosswords: Mischief

I smell mischief here (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart)

Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief. (Emma; writing credit: Douglas McGrath)

Mischief (1968)

Meet Mr. Mischief (1947)

Mischief (1931)

Little Miss Mischief (1922)

Miss Mischief Maker (1918)

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Books

• Mischief in Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery (reference)

• Mr. Mischief (Mr. Men and Little Miss) (reference)

• No Great Mischief (reference)

• Papagayo: The Mischief Maker (A Voyager/Hbj Book) (reference)

• Sudden Mischief (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Betty Boop and the Girls of Mischief (reference)

• Mischief (reference)

• White Mischief (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Mischief Makers (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Mischief. Credit: Library of Congress.

The darktown bicycle club-knocked out: "Dar! I knowed dem odd fellers was a breedin mischief.". Credit: Library of Congress.

Into mischief. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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If any mischief come in such cases, it is not to be charged upon him who defends his own right, but on him that invades his neighbours. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Her gray eyes were clear and calm from sleep, and mischief was not in them

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "mischief": be up to some mischief ♦ bent on mischief ♦ do mischief ♦ get into mischief ♦ get up to mischief ♦ go mischief ♦ keep out of mischief ♦ make mischief ♦ make mischief between ♦ malicious mischief ♦ mean mischief ♦ mischief maker ♦ mischief making ♦ out of pure mischief ♦ plot mischief ♦ ripe for mischief ♦ the mischief is that ♦ To be in mischief ♦ To make mischief ♦ To play the mischief ♦ undo the mischief ♦ what the mischief are you doing there? ♦ why the mischief ♦ work mischief. Additional references.

Beginning with "mischief": mischief-maker, mischief-makering, mischief-makers, mischief-making, mischief-'you.

Albanian

mistrec (captious, flip, wicked), shejtani, ligësi (atrocity, badness, devilry, deviltry, evildoing, evilness, iniquity, malice, rancor, rancour, viciousness, wickedness), dinakëri (artfulness, craftiness, cunning, deception, deviousness, shrewdness, slyness, trickery, wile, wiliness), dhelpëri (cunning, slyness), dëm (damage, Dent, detriment, disadvantage, harm, impairment, injury, insalubrity, lesion, maleficence, mischievousness, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, violence), çapkënëri (monkey tricks, naughtiness, prank). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ولد عفريت, ‏تعمد الاذى, ‏سبب الأذى, ‏خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, drain, injury, leakage, loss, miscarriage, perdition, prejudice, ruination, sacrifice, seep, seepage, spoilage, wastage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разрушения, вреда (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, ill, injury, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, shock), немирство (roguery), неприятност (annoyance, cross, headache, nuisance, packet, plague, rub, scrape, shame, spot, trouble, vexation), насмешливост (flippancy), зло (abuse, bad, cancer, curse, disaster, evil, harm, ill, ulcer, wrong), беля (decorticate, exfoliate, nuisance, packet, pare, peel, pill, rind, shell, shuck, skin, trouble), беда (adversity, bale, disaster, distress, hardship, infelicity, infliction, misfortune, plight, stroke, teen, trouble, woe), повреда (breakdown, conk, damage, defect, failure, fault, flaw, hurt, injury, lesion, scathe, trouble), пакост (damage, diablerie, harm, injury), палавост (mischievousness, naughtiness, playfulness, vivacity), палавник (limb, pickle, urchin), дяволитост. (various references)

Chinese 

惡作劇 (mischievous, practical joke), 淘�" (Naughty). (various references)

Czech

uliènictví, neplecha (devilment, nuisance, pest). (various references)

Dutch

kwaadwilligheid (malfeasance), boosaardigheid (craft, craftiness, cunning, guile). (various references)

Farsi 

موذیگری , اذیت (Annoyance, Harm, Hindrance, Inconvenience, Nuisance, Tease), شیطنت (Shenanigan), شرارت (Depravity, Iniquity, Malfeasance, Villainy), بدسگالی . (various references)

Finnish

vallattomuus (unruliness, unruly nature), pahanteko (evil deed, misdeed), kujeilu (tricks), ilkivaltaisuudet (outrages), ilkivalta (disorderly conduct, outrage), ilkeämielisyys (malice, spite). (various references)

French

malice (mischievousness), malfaisance, tort, polissonnerie (mischievousness), polisson, espièglerie, calamité. (various references)

German

Unheil (disaster, evil), Unfug (devilment, horseplay, monkey tricks, nonsense, rag, rags), Schaden (damage, damaging, defect, derogate, detriment, disadvantage, disadvantages, disservice, fault, harm, hurt, impair, injure, injury, loss, prejudice, to derogate). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω κακό (be bad for, do harm), κακό (cocoa, evil, ill, malefaction, maleficence, wrong), σκανδαλιά, βλάβη (damage, detriment, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, maleficence, trauma, vitiation), μοχθηρία (malice, maliciousness, malignancy, virulence), ζημιά (damage, decrement, detriment, disservice, harm, hurt, injury, loss, prejudice, tort), ζαβολίες (cheating, pranks, tricks), αταξία (ataxia, clutter, confusion, disaray, disarray, disorder, irregularity, mess, mischievousness, naughtiness, prank, shenanighan, wildness). (various references)

Hebrew 

תעלול (antic, caper, caprice, hoax, machination, practical joke, prank, quip, rag, trick, whim), שובבות (misbehavior, misbehaviour, mischievousness, naughtiness, perkiness, roguery), קו� �"סות (jape, practical joke, prank), �"שתובבות (boisterousness). (various references)

Hungarian

rossz tréfa, gonoszkodás (devilment, devilry), csíny (caper, escapade, freak, lark, monkeyshine, prank, prat, rig), bajkeverő (trouble-maker, wrongdoer), baj (bane, bother, complaint, discomfort, grief, harm, malady, matter, misadventure, mischievousness, misery, misfortune, need, pits, predicament, trouble, woe). (various references)

Indonesian

kenakalan. (various references)

Italian

malizia (archness, cunning, malice, trick), malanno (ailment, Deuce, disaster, illness, infirmity, misfortune), danno (damage, detriment, disservice, evil, harm, hurt, ill, injury, loss, ravage, scathe, they give), cattivèria, birichinata, azione dannosa (malfeasance). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

茶目 (brown eyes, playfulness, urchin, wag), 直 (at once, being straight, cheerfulness, common, correctness, direct, earnestly, exactly, frankness, honesty, immediately, in person, just, near by, night duty, ordinary, simplicity, soon, straight), 禍害 (evil, harm), 悪悪戯 , 悪戯 (practical joke, prank, tease, trick), 悪々戯 , 凸坊 (beetle-browed boy), 害�' (harm, injury, poison, virus), 不善 (evil, sin, vice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がいどく (harm, injury, poison, virus), なお (common, further, furthermore, greater, less, more, ordinary, still, still more, straight, yet), ふぜ�" (evil, imperfect, incomplete, partial, sin, vice), で�"ぼう (beetle-browed boy), かがい (assault, damaging, evil, extracurricular, harm, heavy taxation, numerically inferior force, perigone, prostitution quarter, red-light district, small military force, taxation, violence), いたずら (practical joke, prank, tease, trick), あくぎ (practical joke, prank, tease, trick), わるいたずら, ちゃめ (brown eyes, playfulness, urchin, wag). (various references)

Korean 

개구장이. (various references)

Manx

skielley (detriment, harm, hurt, injury, scathe, wrong, wrong harm), olkys (badness, evilness, iniquity, lousiness, malignancy, malignity, mischievousness, moral ill, naughtiness, pravity, viciousness, wickedness), olk (bad, bad-hearted, bad-looking, evil, ill, injury, lousy, morally wrong, naughtiness, truculence, unfavourable, vice, vicious, wicked), mitchoorys (villainy), mitchooraght (villainy), donnys (affliction, bad luck, badness, vileness of weather, woe), assee (harm, hurt, injury, trespass). (various references)

Pig Latin

ischiefmay.(various references)

Portuguese

maleficência (malfeasance), travessura (archness, caper, dido, frisk, gambade, hob, prank, waggery), prejuízo moral, prejuízo (damnification, disadvantage, disservice, lesion, loss, prejudice, scathe), ofensa (delict, dishonor, dishonour, grievance, harm, injury, insult, offence, offense, outrage, peccancy, peeve, transgression, trespass, umbrage, wound, wrong), injúria (abuse, bruise, contumely, despite, insult, invective, outrage, railing, violence, vituperation, wrong), estrago (damage, havoc, offscourings, scathe, waste), dano (damnification, detriment, harm, hurt, injury, loss, prejudice, scathe, tort). (various references)

Romanian

pagubã (cost, detriment, disavantage, grievance, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, prejudice, spoil), daune (loss, lost), drãcuşor (Goblin, hobgoblin, imp), naiba (Dickens, heck), nazuri (whims), neajuns (defect, deficiency, difficulty, drawback, lack, out, shortcoming, trouble), neastâmpãrat (agitated, bustling, fretting, impish, mischievous, naughty, prankish, restless), împieliţat (monkey), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, care, cross, difficulty, distress, evil, furnace, gall, grief, grudge, handful, infliction, mess, need, pain, resentment, Ruth, sorrow, spite, suffering, trouble, upset, vexation, worriment), zburdãlnicie (friskiness, frolic, gamboling, obstreperousness, prank, romp, sportiveness, spree, wantonness), parte proastã, poznã (caper, damage, farce, Folly, foolishness, freak, merry prank, practical trick, prank, roguery), prostie (bosh, fatuity, Folly, foolery, foolishness, fudge, idiocy, ineptitude, lumpishness, madness, oafishness, obtuseness, obtusity, piffle, senseless remark, silly thing, simplicity, stupidity, tomfoolery), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), trãsnaie, vãtãmare (damage, harm, wound), nebunie (craze, craziness, dementia, distraction, Folly, foolery, foolishness, frenzy, hobby, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, phrensy, raving). (various references)

Russian 

вред (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, noxiousness, prejudice). (various references)

Scottish

urchoid (calamity, detriment, hurt), olc (bad, evil, miserable, nasty, poor, wicked, wickedness), lochd (a fault, blemish, defect, evil, harm), donas (evil, evil one, the devil), doirbheas (difficulty), dogadh, diùbhail, cron (blame, defect, evil, fault, harm), breamas (mishap), beud (harm, hurt, injury), amail (hinder, hindrance: ad+ mall, obstruct, prevent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pakost (malevolence, malice, meanness), nestašluk (dido, fetch), đavolija, šteta (damage, detriment, harm, hurt, it is a pity, pity, ravage, scathe, shame). (various references)

Spanish

travesura (devilry, Dido, prank, trick). (various references)

Swedish

rackartyg (monkey business, monkey tricks, shenanigan), okynne, ofog, odygd (mischievous, naughty). (various references)

Turkish

zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), yaramazlık (devilment, devilry, fooling, misbehavior, misbehaviour, mischievousness, naughtiness, prank, roguery), haylazlık (devilment, idleness), hasar (average, damage, depredation, detriment, harm, havoc, injury, scathe, spoilage, wreckage), fesat (agitator, corruption, depravity, intrigue, jaundiced, low-minded, malice, plot, poisonous, sinister), şeytanlık (art, arts, craftiness, cunning, devilment, devilry, diabolism, fiendishness, prank, slyness, wiliness). (various references)

Turkmen 

betlik (badness). (various references)

Ukrainian

шкода (breakage, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, ill, injury, loss, noxiousness, scathe), лихо (adversity, affliction, bad, bale, calamity, cancer, catastrophe, curse, disaster, harm, ill, mishap, plague, woe), біда (affliction, bale, calamity, cancer, catastrophe, evil, misfortune, need). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mối phiền luỵ trò tinh nghịch, mối nguy hại, mối hại (damage, endamage), việc ác (evil-doing, illy), trò tinh quái, trò láu cá sự ranh mãnh, sự tổn hại (detriment), sự láu lỉnh, điều ác (evil, evil-doing, malefaction), đ�" quỷ quái. (various references)

Welsh

direidi (mischievousness). (various references)

caput, mala, male, malefacere, malefaciendi, malefaciendum, malefacientibus, malefacientium, malefacit, malefaciunt, malefactoribus, malefecerint, malefecerunt, mali, malis, malo, malorum, malum, malumque, perniciem. (various references)

paityârem. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "mischief": mischiefs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mischief" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fischoff, imshied, maschief, Maschsee, Mechie, Meechie, Miescher, mischeif, mischiefing, mischieful, mischieve, mischif, mischosen, mishief, Mitchie, Moncrief, moschaia, Moschion, moschoi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: chiefs, chimes, fiches, miches.

-3 letters: chefs, chief, chime, fices, fiche, hemic, mesic, miche.

-4 letters: chef, chis, emfs, emic, fehs, fems, fice, fisc, fish, hems, hies, ices, ichs, mesh, mice, mise, seif, semi, shim, sice.

-5 letters: chi, cis, efs, emf, ems, feh, fem, fie, hem, hes, hic, hie, him, his, ice, ich, ifs, ism, mis.

+1 letter: fetichism, mischiefs.

+2 letters: fetichisms.

+3 letters: microfiches.