puckish

• adj. 恶作剧的，淘气的

来自puck,淘气小妖，-ish,形容词后缀。

puckish

puckish: [19] In English folklore from the late Middle Ages onward, Puck was a mischievous but essentially harmless sprite, up to all sorts of tricks (hence the coining of puckish for ‘mischievous’). But his Anglo-Saxon ancestor Pūca was a far less pleasant proposition – for this was the Devil himself. He gradually dwindled over the centuries, but a hint of his former power remained in his placatory alternative name Robin Goodfellow. It is not known whether pūca is of Germanic or Celtic origin.

puckish (adj.)

1867, from Puck + -ish. Related: Puckishly; puckishness.

1. He had a puckish sense of humour.

他有种恶作剧式的幽默感。

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