naughty
adj 1: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue
jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy
details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty
words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy
gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy,
naughty, racy, risque, spicy]
2: badly behaved; "a naughty boy"
naughty
M.E. naugti "nothing, evil," from O.E. nawiht (see naught). Originally
meant both "needy" and "evil." The more tame modern sense is 17c. A
woman of bad character c.1530 was a naughty pack.
naughty adjective (naughtier; -est)
Etymology: Middle English noughti, from noughtDate: 14th century 1.a.archaic vicious in moral character ;wickedb. guilty of disobedience or misbehavior
2. lacking in taste or propriety • naughtilyadverb
• naughtinessnoun
naughty
(naughtier, naughtiest)
1. If you say that a child is naughty, you mean that they behave badly or do not do
what they are told.
Girls, you're being very naughty...You naughty boy, you gave me such a fright.= bad
≠ good
ADJ
2. You can describe books, pictures, or words, as naughty when they are slightly rude
or related to sex.
You know what little boys are like with naughty words....saucy TV shows, crammed full of naughty innuendo.ADJ
Naughty \Naugh"ty\, a. [Compar. Naughtier; superl.
Naughtiest.]
1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.]
[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy
goods. --Piers
Plowman.
2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.]
The other basket had very naughty figs. --Jer. xxiv.
2.
3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic]
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak.
4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or
improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter
sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.
naughty
ˈnɔ:tɪ adj.
1 mischievous, impish, puckish, roguish, scampish, devilish; frolicsome, playful: The
children would get naughty the minute the teacher turned her back to the class.
2 disobedient, refractory, insubordinate, bad, perverse, wicked, fractious, unruly,
wayward, unmanageable, ungovernable, undisciplined, defiant, obstreperous: Naughty pupils in
this school are birched.
3 improper, offensive, vulgar, indecent, immoral, risqu÷, off colour, ribald, bawdy,
blue, pornographic, smutty, lewd, obscene, dirty, Colloq X-rated, raunchy: The teacher caught
Keith reading a naughty book.
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