Word Meanings - WAGGISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. "A company of waggish boys." L'Estrange. 2. Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- Wag"gish*ly, adv.

Additional info about word: WAGGISH

1. Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. "A company of waggish boys." L'Estrange. 2. Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- Wag"gish*ly, adv. -- Wag"gish*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WAGGISH)

• Facetious
• Witty
• funny
• humorous
• jocular
• waggish
• playful
• droll
• jocose
• Jocose
• Humorous
• jolly
• merry
• facetious

Related words: (words related to WAGGISH)

• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• JOCOSE
  Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• WITTY
  1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem,
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• MERRY
  mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gamaúrgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• JOLLY
  jolif, joyful, merry, F. joli pretty; of Scand. origin, akin to E. 1. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. Like a jolly troop of huntsmen. Shak. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot
• JOCULARITY
  Jesting; merriment.
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• DROLLER
  A jester; a droll. Glanvill.
• WAGGISH
  1. Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. "A company of waggish boys." L'Estrange. 2. Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- Wag"gish*ly, adv.
• PLAYFUL
  Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer. -- Play"ful*ly, adv. -- Play"ful*ness, n.
• FUNNY
  Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.
• JOCULARY
  Jocular; jocose; sportive. Bacon.
• JOCULAR
  1. Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. "Jocular exploits." Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. Dryden.
• DROLL
  Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical.
• JOLLY-BOAT
  A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.
• MERRYMEETING
  A meeting for mirth.