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Definition of Naughty

1. Adjective. Suggestive of sexual impropriety. "Spicy gossip"

Definition of Naughty

1. a. Having little or nothing.

Definition of Naughty

1. Adjective. (context: now rare archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹

2. Adjective. Immoral, sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

3. Adjective. (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard. (defdate 16th-19th c.) ¹

4. Adjective. Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child). (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Naughty

1. disobedient [adj -TIER, -TIEST] / one that is naughty [n -TIES] - See also: disobedient

Lexicographical Neighbors of Naughty

Literary usage of Naughty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Hence TO DO THE (GO, OR BE) naughty=to play the whore : shop and working girls in large towns sometimes say they work for their living, but DO THE naughty ..."

2. The White Sea Peninsula, a Journey in Russian Lapland and Karelia by Edward Rae (1881)
"He appeared to be the naughty boy of the village. He would whistle, and look at me with a knowing confidence, as if to say it was not so long since I had ..."

3. On English Poetry: Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of this Art by Robert Graves (1922)
"As an example of the way Keats rung the changes on the senses, take his "Song about Myself":— There was a naughty Boy And a naughty boy was he He ran away ..."

4. The Nursery by John L. Shorey (Firm (1881)
"Tis such a naughty, naughty cat! Old Tab, that's owned by aunty Gray: She growls, and spits, and shows her claws, As sharp as needles in her paws; ..."

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