Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : Fielding and Sterne are waggish writers. ,waggish humor. From Dictionary.com.
Let it recall his waggish heart. From Wordnik.com. [Songs, Merry and Sad] Reference
Colonel was a gentleman of pleasant, waggish humour. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
And it did him good to drink in her mirthful, waggish laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
"There are three ways to get out," goes one waggish response. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Naiman: Why Peaceniks Should Care About the Afghanistan Study Group Report] Reference
'Good evening we are Mark Smith' a waggish character replied. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls & gargoyles] Reference
"No, sir; they're testaments," was a waggish official's reply. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
The waggish professor is enjoying himself, quite in his element. From Wordnik.com. [Look Back on Happiness] Reference
Has an Eye that plays its Lightnings-sly, and waggish, and roguish. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 11, 18 - 29 December 1765] Reference
No, said a third in a waggish tone, that would be quite new. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
This is the wise waggish – will and good – will of my soul, that it. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
Cousin Monica looked in my face with her old waggish smile, and laughed. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas] Reference
After a little banter about his intentions, he added another waggish riposte. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn Teo: "Poster Boy" Of Immigration Enforcement To Be Investigated, Says He Should Be Commended] Reference
Still -- step by step -- Main Street is feeling bullish, even waggish, again. From Wordnik.com. [IS THIS BULL FOR REAL?] Reference
O my pretty little waggish boy, said Grangousier, what an excellent wit thou hast?. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Another waggish picture is made by the snub-nosed girl with her hair arranged à la. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Mrs. Mills went back to the shop with a waggish caution against too much love-making. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
Perhaps, an appropriate answer can be produced only by another child – open-minded and waggish. From Wordnik.com. [Fiction Writing: Discover Your MonkeyBoy] Reference
But Mr. Lambert was always laughing in his waggish way, and, indeed, he did not look the least angry. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
On another occasion he was riding along the road, and was accosted by two waggish members of the 6th Ohio. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
But in the words of one waggish bystander in the Sheraton hallways last week: this ain't no capital campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Watson: Exploding Philanthropy: What the Clinton Party Really Meant] Reference
Only oysters know how to smile in this way; cool, gentle, waggish, and yet inexpressibly innocent and winning. From Wordnik.com. [George Cruikshank] Reference
If I should lay it aside, the waggish pages would cut to themselves garters out of it, as I was once served at. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
“Well, and what do you think of it?” says Sir John, looking mity waggish — for he knew it was me who roat it. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush] Reference
The stranger looked sternly at the waggish apprentice, and seemed to grasp his cudgel in rather a menacing fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
All the tresses in such condition that I have ever gazed upon have looked most slovenly and ofttimes positively waggish. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Mother — Enters into a Confederacy with Hatchway and Pipes, and executes a couple of waggish Enterprises upon his Aunt. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
The Commodore sends a Challenge to Gamaliel, and is imposed upon by a waggish invention of the Lieutenant, Peregrine, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
“A million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
The Commodore sends a Challenge to Gamaliel, and is imposed upon by a waggish invention of the Lieutenant, Peregrine, and Gauntlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
He shook hands with Philip, and chucked Patty under the chin with a waggish aspect, which called an appealing blush into the girl's face. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
But Herr Kleefeld, leaning as before on the counter, shook his head from side to side, with a waggish air, which confused Ephie still more. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Early on this week, when I was very tired and feeling a little waggish, I thought of a place where we would like to be the first year on the measurement. From Wordnik.com. [Openess] Reference
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