[
US
/ˈpəkɪʃ/
]
[ UK /pˈʌkɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌkɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
naughtily or annoyingly playful
teasing and worrying with impish laughter
a wicked prank
How To Use puckish In A Sentence
- To balance the evening, Tree ends with Li sitting alone on stage, puckishly singing along in Chinese with the old Johnson recording.
- Perhaps inspired by my glare, he puckishly suggested that I take up making shoes (homonymic with my surname).
- He is a puckish, straight-talking young man from Brisbane whose unwillingness to mince his words has resulted in friction with his team managers.
- Growling in from left is Warren Miller, the puckish godfather of extreme-ski cinema and our nation's original ski bum.
- Indian cricket for too long has been defined by a kind of elegant puckishness.
- Her material is good, but her puckish delivery even better.
- It was a privilege to be in thrall to those stentorian tones, liberally laced with puckish humour, which delighted millions of cricket fans for decades, first on television and later on radio's immensely popular Test Match Special.
- She was pretty, a lovely devilment in the face, a puckish little smile, tiny pointed ears suggesting otherworldliness. MAMBO
- Perhaps it's the nature of his face - it's built to look older than it is, when it's really just odd - puckish, unlovely, something youth never really touched.
- I thought she displayed a grace and charm in that speech as well as a puckish sense of humor that would make her a very appealing witness before the Judiciary Committee.