Hypertext Webster Gateway: "waggish"

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

Waggish \Wag"gish\ (-g[i^]sh), a.
1. Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or
good humor; frolicsome. ``A company of waggish boys.''
--L'Estrange.

2. Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive;
humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- {Wag"gish*ly}, adv. --
{Wag"gish*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

waggish
adj : witty or joking; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been
facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James
Fenimore Cooper


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