prank·ish | \ ˈpraŋ-kish 
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Synonyms for prankish
Synonyms
- arch,
- devilish,
- elvish,
- espiègle,
- impish,
- knavish,
- leprechaunish,
- mischievous,
- pixie
- (also pixy),
- pixieish,
- puckish,
- rascally,
- roguish,
- scampish,
- sly,
- tricksy,
- waggish,
- wicked
Examples of prankish in a Sentence
told the prankish lad that someone would eventually get hurt if he kept it up
Recent Examples on the Web Some of the jokes may be prankish, but there’s no cruelty in them.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, "25 Years Later, Dumb and Dumber Is More Than Just the Gold Standard for Toilet Humor," 23 Dec. 2019 Fake events on Facebook have taken off as a prankish form of internet humor in the last five years, including Limp Bizkit concerts in Detroit and Smash Mouth in Tulsa.
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Dylan Bouscher, The Denver Post, "The internet’s memes and reactions to Area 51 raiders," 16 July 2019 Fake events on Facebook have taken off as a prankish form of internet humor in the last five years, including Limp Bizkit concerts in Detroit and Smash Mouth in Tulsa.
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Dylan Bouscher, The Denver Post, "The internet’s memes and reactions to Area 51 raiders," 16 July 2019 Fake events on Facebook have taken off as a prankish form of internet humor in the last five years, including Limp Bizkit concerts in Detroit and Smash Mouth in Tulsa.
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Dylan Bouscher, The Denver Post, "The internet’s memes and reactions to Area 51 raiders," 16 July 2019 Fake events on Facebook have taken off as a prankish form of internet humor in the last five years, including Limp Bizkit concerts in Detroit and Smash Mouth in Tulsa.
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Dylan Bouscher, The Denver Post, "The internet’s memes and reactions to Area 51 raiders," 16 July 2019 Fake events on Facebook have taken off as a prankish form of internet humor in the last five years, including Limp Bizkit concerts in Detroit and Smash Mouth in Tulsa.
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Dylan Bouscher, The Denver Post, "The internet’s memes and reactions to Area 51 raiders," 16 July 2019 Fake events on Facebook have taken off as a prankish form of internet humor in the last five years, including Limp Bizkit concerts in Detroit and Smash Mouth in Tulsa.
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Dylan Bouscher, The Denver Post, "The internet’s memes and reactions to Area 51 raiders," 16 July 2019 Fake events on Facebook have taken off as a prankish form of internet humor in the last five years, including Limp Bizkit concerts in Detroit and Smash Mouth in Tulsa.
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Dylan Bouscher, The Denver Post, "The internet’s memes and reactions to Area 51 raiders," 16 July 2019
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The first known use of prankish was in 1776
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