plisky

American  

[plis-kee] / ˈplɪs ki /

Or pliskie

noun

• pliskies
  plural

1. a mischievous trick; practical joke; prank.

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adjective

1. mischievous; playful.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pliskies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of plisky

First recorded in 1700–10; origin unknown

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

plisky pliskies

Faith! yon was an ill plisky ye played me to brak into my chop an' steal the bonnie leddy.'

From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

Man, there a' oot to Scaurnose to see the plisky.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various

I nobbut wish he may catch ye i' that plisky.

From The Three Brontës by May Sinclair

Jist playin' a plisky on ye, and he meant that Tom wad pit ye in the way o' becoming a player.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

Gin I cud only win at that, maybe I cud play him a plisky.

From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

"I howp noo, Sandy," I says, says I, "that you'll keep clear o' the eediotikal pliskies you played lest winter."

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

"Nae man in a civilised country ever played the pliskies ye hae done—but e'en pickle in your ain pock-neuk—I hae gi'en ye wanting."

From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott

"What's this noo?" says I. "Nae mair o' yer fitba' pliskies, I howp."

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

For after years wi’ a pockmantie Frae Zanzibar to Alicante, In mony a fash and sair affliction I gie’t as my sincere conviction— Of a’ their foreign tricks an’ pliskies, I maist abominate their whiskies.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

O, Maister Frank! a' your uncle's follies, and a' your cousin's pliskies, were naething to this!

From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott