Hypertext Webster Gateway: "naughty"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Naughty \Naugh"ty\, a. [Compar. {Naughtier}; superl.
{Naughtiest}.]
1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.]

[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy
goods. --Piers
Plowman.

2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.]

The other basket had very naughty figs. --Jer. xxiv.
2.

3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic]

So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak.

4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or
improper conduct; as, a naughty child.

Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter
sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

naughty
adj 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" [syn: {blue}, {gamy}, {gamey}, {juicy},
{racy}, {risque}, {spicy}]
2: badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a
naughty boy" [syn: {mischievous}]


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