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Adjective

waggish (comparative more waggish, superlative most waggish)

• witty, jocular, like a wag
  • ✤ [H]ere Pen was immensely waggish, and caused hysteric giggles of delight from the ladies […]¹
  • ✤ As the time went on and the impenetrable Carrados made no allusion to the case, Carlyle’s manner inclined to a waggish commiseration of his host’s position.²
• mischievous, tricky

Etymology

From wag (“waghalter, rogue”) + -ish.

Pronunciation

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Footnotes

1. 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 48, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC: ↩

2. 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados: ↩

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