waggish
adjEtymology From wag (“waghalter, rogue”) + -ish.
1
witty, jocular, like a wag
- [H]ere Pen was immensely waggish, and caused hysteric giggles of delight from the ladies […]1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 48, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- 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.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
2
mischievous, tricky
- Derived terms
- waggishly, waggishness