naughty
adjective
- mischievous
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈnɔːti/ / /ˈnɔti/ / [ˈnɔɾi]
adj
Etymology: From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.
- Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
“Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.”
- Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.
“I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.”
“If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!”
- Decadent, had as indulgence, especially an unhealthy one.
“You knew I had to include at least one naughty chocolate smoothie, didn't you?!”
- Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
“my proneſſe to ſinne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell”
“[…]How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
- Bad, worthless, substandard.
“In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty Englysshe, and the other is Cornysshe speche.”
“One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.”
verb
Etymology: From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.
- To perform sexual acts.