prankish

[prang-kish]

adjective

1. of the nature of a prank.

   a prankish plan.

2. full of pranks; prank; playful.

   a prankish child; a prankish kitten.

Other Word Forms

• prankishly adverb
• prankishness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of prankish¹

First recorded in 1820–30; prank ¹ + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

I was delighted that she was granted a prominent place in the adaptation’s second act, but it’s a shame that, like all the characters, she becomes a pawn in O’Hara’s prankish plot.

From Los Angeles Times

Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey’s prankish body count.

From Los Angeles Times

“It remains as outrageously prankish, juvenile, and derisive as ever,” writes David Denby in the New Yorker magazine’s blog.

From Los Angeles Times

It also suited Scott’s shooting style: long takes, not a lot of notes, multiple cameras and a prankish sense of humor.

From Los Angeles Times

Workplaces, theater marquees, pillows, municipal services: everything starts to absorb their prankish tendencies until the ending sequence combines it all into a kind of over-the-top, technicolor uneasiness.

From Salon

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• whimsical