Adjective : a prankish plan. ,a prankish child; a prankish kitten. From Dictionary.com.
That too is a heck of a stretch, while ignoring the nooses as "prankish" or whatever the call was to let it go. From Wordnik.com. [Jena: A Request] Reference
To his amazement she burst into prankish laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
The wind swirled its surface in prankish whirl-pools. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
The motivation appears to be entirely nasty and prankish. From Wordnik.com. [How crucial is it for food critics to be anonymous?] Reference
I was being a little prankish there, needling the Republicans. From Wordnik.com. [Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis] Reference
Nothing prankish so far, just a bit of surreptitious gardening. From Wordnik.com. [June 2005] Reference
Creative Review has details on the tech behind the prankish miracle. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
I gotta admit, this is kinda funny in a fratboy prankish sort of way. From Wordnik.com. [GOP turns tables on Democrats] Reference
I felt like a boy; a wild, prankish sensation of freedom possessed me. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
I actually launched Chowhound in much the same whimsical, prankish spirit. From Wordnik.com. [You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Interview: Jim Leff of chowhound.com] Reference
It could even have been some other kid playing a practical joke on him, a prankish hiker. From Wordnik.com. [Quozl]
But—I sort of agree with "Name" who posted April 28, 2010 at 4:23p…this looks a bit prankish. From Wordnik.com. ["Get Me a Photo of Barack Obama by Any Means Necessary!" | Indecision Forever | Political Humor, 2010 Election, and Satire Blog | Comedy Central] Reference
The hoist whines back the way it came, to its prankish operator and the next fool he can talk into riding it. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
The program is evil and wasteful, he wrote in 2003 — a “prankish conspiracy against evidence and thought.”. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking Truth to PowerPoint] Reference
No fault of his if Fate grew prankish and set the stage with gold brocade and an ancient boat and such a ferryman. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
In “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” prankish animators slipped in a few drawings of Jessica Rabbit with no underwear. From Wordnik.com. [Web site separates fact from urban legend] Reference
Most of the searches on ChaCha are kids with waste of time prankish searches or blaster questions that are used to train. From Wordnik.com. [ChaCha Ditches Guided Search Model. I Love To Hate This Startup] Reference
He credited his prankish side with keeping him young, fond as he was for pulling practical jokes on his co-stars and directors. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Newman: A rare breed] Reference
Real individuals would be dragged into what is an ugly process, so it's not a prankish display of disrespect for campus authorities. From Wordnik.com. ["I encourage conservative and libertarian — or just mischievous — students to flood the system with complaints about anything that offends them."] Reference
At the end of the article there's kind of a huge revelation, though knowing Frey's prankish tendencies, it very well might be a joke. From Wordnik.com. [James Frey: 'There Isn't a Great Deal of Difference Between Fact and Fiction'] Reference
In any case it's no tradition; the brush is sometimes lit sooner, if the winds have been prankish or if the sound's particularly strong. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
Kalashnikov himself called it “freakish,” “prankish,” and “capricious,” and something that American soldiers “threw away.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Gun] Reference
This prankish wave-swept barque has won its place. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems] Reference
He broke into a stiff, but prankish double-shuffle. From Wordnik.com. [The Clarion] Reference
The metro Detroiter and his sometimes-prankish band. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
Mr. Catbird was always prankish and full of spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Bobby Bobolink Tuck-me-In Tales] Reference
At that somehow, I both lost my temper and felt prankish. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
And the prankish little fellow looks so knowing in his glee. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Friendship] Reference
A prankish mood came upon her now which she couldn't resist. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
To date, 20,000 (I think), but it took a prankish Admin to do it. From Wordnik.com. [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference
This prankish mood of the crew was shown in their efforts to make. From Wordnik.com. [Isle o' Dreams] Reference
Hal they seemed casual, purposeless; rather prankish, too, like a lot of urchins out on a lark. From Wordnik.com. [The Clarion] Reference
The wind, with a prankish flurry, flapped the flying newspaper against the face of the skittish bay. From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
Evil One, and the monkeys were prankish, pulling against the string, till they caught sight of Shibli Bagarag. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
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