Naughty

Definition: Naughty

Naughty

Adjective

1. Suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip".

2. Badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy".

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

Date "naughty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Naughty \Naugh"ty\, adjective. [Comparative Naughtier; superlative Naughtiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Naughty

Vice

Adjective: vicious; sinful; sinning;Verb: wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous, undutiful.

Crosswords: Naughty

Claudia, you have been a very, very naughty little girl (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

You're like Santa Claus with that list, Bud, except everyone on it's been naughty. (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson.)

Are you by any chance trying to trace my whereabouts, you naughty girl (Hannibal; writing credit: David Mamet)

Ah, then you'll want 'you're a naughty, naughty boy, and that's concentrated evil coming out the back of you' (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Let's give it up for Naughty by Nature (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Continue to act naughty (#1; performing artist: Nelly)

A very naughty girl that's what I need (Freaky Girl; performing artist: Shaggy)

Naughty Dr. Jekyll (1973)

Naughty! (1971)

Naughty Nurse (1969)

The Naughty Shutter (1963)

Naughty Boy (1962)

Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane, The (performing artist: The Ames Brothers)

Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) (performing artist: Samantha Fox)

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

Books

• Heedley Pecked Me in the Eye (Naughty Naughty Pets) (reference)

• Naughty Stories from A to Z (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Adam Sandler Nice & Naughty Gift Pack (The Wedding Singer/Little Nicky) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Naughty (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Naughty, naughty, Bob, Papa must do the purging!. Credit: Library of Congress.

David Belasco's comedy, Naughty Anthony. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chas. E. Evans ... David Belasco's comedy, Naughty Anthony. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

TWO little girls near London dwell, More naughty than I like to tell

It is very naughty to cough and disturb me.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "naughty": be naughty ♦ naughty bits ♦ naughty books ♦ naughty boy ♦ naughty child ♦ naughty figs ♦ naughty words. Additional references.

Beginning with "naughty": naughty-but-nice, naughty-word.

Ending with "naughty": ultra-naughty.

Albanian

i prapë (back, jackanapes, rear), i pabindur (contumacious, disobedient, indocile, licentious, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, unamenable, unpersuadable, wayward), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), çapkën (cheat, crook, puckish, rogue, urchin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير مطيع (indocile), ‏سيء السلوك, ‏شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked), ‏داعر (bawdy, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, light, mean, obscene, obscenity, pornographic, raffish, salacious, scarlet, sensual, wanton), ‏بذيء (dirty, filthy, improper, impure, indecent, nasty, ribald, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

циничен (cynical, filthy, indecent, lubricous, scurrilous, smutty), осъдителен (blameworthy, condemnatory, exceptionable, objectionable, reprehensible), нереден (indecent, undue, wrong), немирен (impish, noisy), неприличен (bawdy, foul, immodest, improper, indecent, indelicate, lewd, nasty, off color, off colour, ribald, salacious, shameful, smutty, spicy, tasteless, unbecoming, uncomely, unmentionable, unseemly), непослушен (disobedient, intractable, refractory, troublesome, undutiful), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), пакостник (imp, mischievous, monkey, rascal, rogue, sod, varmint), пакостлив (mischievous, pixy, puckish, roguish), палав (impish, larky, mischievous, noisy, pixy, prankish, puppyish, rompy, troublesome, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

調皮 (mischievous, unruly), � �皮 , � � (mischievous, obstinate, stubborn, stupid, to play), 淘氣 (bad), 淘�" (mischief). (various references)

Czech

nezvedený, nezbedný, rozpustilý (boisterous, hoity toity, impish, mischievous, ribald, unruly, wanton), pikantní (fruity, piquant, racy, Savory, spicy, tasty), darebácký (knavish, roguish). (various references)

Dutch

vlegel (boor, naughty boy, pickle, rude fellow), straatbengel (naughty boy, pickle), snotaap (naughty boy, pickle), rekel (good-for-nothing, naughty boy, pickle), blaag (naughty boy, pickle), bengel (clapper, naughty boy, pickle). (various references)

Esperanto

bubaĉo (naughty boy, pickle). (various references)

Farsi 

نافرمان (Disobedient, Insubordinate, Wayward), سرکش (Disobedient, Indomitable, Inelastic, Insubordinate, Irrepressible, Malcontent, Malignant, Random, Rebel, Rebellious, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Restive, Rowdy, Turbulent, Undaunted, Unruly, Unyielding, Wanton), شیطان (Arch, Bogey, Deuce, Devil, Impish, Mischievous, Tempter), شریر (Bad, Heinous, Infernal, Nefarious, Vicious, Villain, Villainous, Viper, Wicked), بدذات (Villain, Villainous). (various references)

Finnish

tuhma, paha (bad, evil, serious, severe, wicked), ilkeä (bad, evil, loathsome, malicious, mischievous, nasty, vicious, wicked), häijy (bad, evil, malicious). (various references)

French

vilain (nasty, naughty boy), polisson, pas sage, paillard, méchant (nasty, naughty child), grivois, désobéissant, coquin. (various references)

German

unartig (bad, nasty, naughtily). (various references)

Greek 

κακόσ (awful, bad, evil, ill, maleficent, mischievous, sinistrous, spiteful, vicious, wicked), σκανδαλιστικόσ (shocking), άτακτοσ (anomalous, fractious, haywire, irregular, mischievous, snatchy, straggly, tough, unruly), άτακτος (desultory, disorderly, misbehaved). (various references)

Hebrew 

מושחת (corrupt, corruptible, debauchee, perverse, punk, rotten, sordid, vicious), שובבי (impish, mischievous, puckish, rogue, roguish, sly, sportive, urchin, wanton), שובב (boisterous, enfant terrible, imp, mischievous, pawky, rascal). (various references)

Hungarian

csintalan (mischievous, perky, puckish, shrewd, wicked), szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, malapert, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing), rakoncátlan (madcap, unruly). (various references)

Indonesian

nakal (elfish, impish, mischievous, puckish, pucklike, wicked), mbeling (antiestablishment), bangor (insolent, unashamed). (various references)

Italian

cattivo (airy-fairy, bad, evil, foul, frolic, frolicsome, ill, ill natured, mad, malicious, miserable, nasty, perverse, petulant, poor, spiteful, unkind, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

やり方が渋い (Aah!, affluence, Ah!, at ease, calm, Dear me!, exclamation of relief or disappointment, flicker, large thing swaying, mildly, mischievous, Oh dear!, Oh!, reserve, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, room, shake, slow swaying, slowly, softly, stingy ways, swing, swinging, Thank God!, time, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobbling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

や�"ちゃ (mischievous). (various references)

Korean 

장난꾸러기. (various references)

Manx

olkyssagh (baleful, elfish, evilly-disposed, iniquitous, malicious, malignant, mischief-maker, mischievous, vicious, wicked), garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar). (various references)

Pig Latin

aughtynay.(various references)

Portuguese

perverso (cantankerous, damnable, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill-conditioned, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, nefarious, perverse, sinful, unjust, unnatural, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villainous, viperous, wicked), maldoso (malicious, mischievous, spiteful, venomous), malcriado (ill-bred, insolent, uncivil, underbred, unmannerly), impróprio (amiss, discreditable, faked, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncomely, undignified, unfit, unmeet, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, unworthy, useless), desobediente (disobedient, recalcitrant, unruly, wayward). (various references)

Romanian

nepoliticos (abrupt, audacious, bluntly, coarsely, discourteous, disobligingly, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, nasty, obscenely, unceremonious, uncivil), necuviincios (brazen, disrespectful, disrespectfully, foul, graceless, indecent, indecorous, obscenely, scabrous, unbecoming, uncomely), neastâmpãrat (agitated, bustling, fretting, impish, mischief, mischievous, prankish, restless), neascultãtor (contumacious, disobedient, errant, indocile, obstreperous, repugnant, unruly), urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), stricãtor (bad, corrupting, deleterious, harmful), 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, mischief, mischievous, miserable, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), mofturos (dainty, demure, fastidious, finical, finicking, fractious, Froward, humoursome, nice, particular, peevish, perverse, picky, qualmish, squeamish), indecent (blue, dirty, free and easy, gross, hoggish, immodestly, improper, indecent, lewd, racy, unprintable, unseemly). (various references)

Russian 

непослушный (disobedient, mischievous, rebellious, recalcitrant, unamenable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nevaspitan (bad-mannered, churlish, cubbish, malapert, rude, unbred, uncivil, unmannerly), nevaljao (arch, rogue, roguish, unkind, unrighteous, wicked), rđav (bad, ill, miserable, naught, punk, rotten, unimprovable, wicked). (various references)

Spanish

verde (bawdy, dirty, green, greeny, low, lower, rude, undeveloped, verdant), travieso (across, athwart, frolicsome, high-spirited, impish, mischievous, playful, prankish, puckish, roguish, wanton, wayward, wilful, willful), revoltoso (balky, boisterous, disorderly, mischief maker, rebellious, recalcitrant, rioter, unruly), picante (biting, gamy, hot, itchy, juicy, nutty, peppery, piquancy, piquant, pointed, pungency, pungent, raciness, racy, salty, spice, spicy), pícaro (crafty, imp, jester, picaroon, rascal, rascally, rogue, roguish, saucy, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, street smart, tinker), malo (Amiss, bad, black-hearted, bum, difficult, disagreeable, disgusting, erroneous, evil, evil-wishing, hard, ill, inconvenient, lower, mischievous, miserable, mistaken, nasty, ornery, poor, punk, sick, tacky, tough, troubled, unsound, villain, wicked, wretched, wrong), escabroso (harsh, jolty, obscene, ribald, risky, rough, rugged, scabrous, tough, uneven), desobediente (disobedient), colorado (Colorado, colored, coloured, dyed, red, scarlet), atrevido (audacious, bold, daredevil, daring, foppish, forward, impudent, insolent, pert, presumptuous, venturesome). (various references)

Swedish

vanartig (vicious), stygg (bad, miserable, nasty, poor, wicked). (various references)

Thai

ซุกซน. (various references)

Turkish

yaramaz (elfin, elvish, good for nothing, impish, little perisher, mischievous, non-effective, obstreperous, pickle, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, skittish, undisciplined, unmanageable, wicked), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), haylaz (abandoned, good for nothing, idle, lazy, rapscallion, scamp, shiftless), haşarı (obstreperous, rompy), edepsiz (dirty, immodest, indecent, nasty, rude, shameless), afacan (guttersnipe, imp, impish, little monster, little perisher, mischievous, pickle, puckish, rascal, scamp, urchin). (various references)

Ukrainian

сумнівний (apocryphal, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, indeterminate, off color, off colour, precarious, problematic, problematical, queer, risky, shady, uncertain), ризикований (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, critical, hazardous, off color, off colour, perilous, precarious, risky, risque, touch and go, touchy, venturesome, wildcat), кепський (bad, dying, miserable, moldy, mouldy, nasty, naught, poor), гріховний (piacular, sinful), вередливий (fastidious, perverse, queasy, squeamish), неслухняний (contumacious, disobedient, indocile, non-ductile, ungovernable), невдалий (abortive, awry, bad, failed, ineffectual, infelicitous, lame, nasty, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, wide), непідхожий (ill timed, improper, inadequate, inapposite, inapt, inconvenient, inept, unbecoming, unchristian, undesirable, undue, unearthly, unmeet, unsuitable, untoward, unworthy), недобрий (alien, unkind, wicked), зіпсований (addle, adulterated, bad, base, corrupt, debauched, decadent, deformed, degenerate, miscreant, out of order, spoilt, unsound, wrong), лихий (blackhearted, evil), пустотливий (airy, arch, coltish, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, wanton, whisky), примхливий (arbitrary, capricious, choice, cranky, fanciful, fractious, freak, freakish, huffish, humorous, humous, inconstant, maggoty, notional, notionate, skittish, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), порочний (cammed, dark, depraved, gallows, perverse, rampant, vicious, wicked), поганий (bad, bum, cheesy, deplorable, doggerel, ill, inferior, nasty, naught, objectionable, one horse, punk, rubbishy, shady, sour, third rate, unlovely, weak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhảm, nghịch ngợm thô tục, tục tĩu (coarse, foul, gross, grossly, obscene, ribald, salacious, scurrilous), hư đốn, hư (bogus, diseased, shabby, untoward, wicked). (various references)

Welsh

drwg (bad, evil, frolic, frolicsome, harm, hurt, miserable, nasty, petulant, poor, wicked). (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"Naughty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aughey, naffy, Nauchny, naugh, naughts, naugt, naugthy, naugty, naugut, naut, nautty, nauty, nighty, noughth, noughts, noughty. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: naught.

-2 letters: aught, aunty, gaunt, ghaut, haunt, tangy, thuya, unhat.

-3 letters: aunt, gaun, ghat, gnat, guan, hang, hant, haut, hung, hunt, tang, than, thug, tuna, tung, yang, yuan, yuga.

-4 letters: ant, any, gan, gat, gay, gnu, gun, gut, guy, hag, hat, hay, hug, hun, hut, nag, nah, nay, nth, nut, tag, tan, tau, thy.

+2 letters: naughtily.

+3 letters: hauntingly.