naughty
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ˈnɔːti/
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/ˈnɔːti/ · /ˈnɔti/ · [ˈnɔɾi] · /ˈnɑti/ · [ˈnɑɾi]
Definition of naughty
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
“Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.”
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adj
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Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
“Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.”
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Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.
“I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.”
“If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!”
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(informal)Decadent, had as indulgence, especially an unhealthy one.
“You knew I had to include at least one naughty chocolate smoothie, didn't you?!”
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(archaic)Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
“my proneſſe to ſinne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell”
“[…]How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
“A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.”
“Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.”
“Meowky as naughty folks”
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(obsolete)Bad, worthless, substandard.
“In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty Englysshe, and the other is Cornysshe speche.”
“One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.”
verb
- To perform sexual acts.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.
Words you can make from naughty
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31 words- HAY 9 pts
- THY 9 pts
- YAH 9 pts
- GAY 7 pts
- GUY 7 pts
- HAG 7 pts
- HUG 7 pts
- UGH 7 pts
- YAG 7 pts
- ANY 6 pts
- HAT 6 pts
- HUN 6 pts
- HUT 6 pts
- NAH 6 pts
- NAY 6 pts
- NTH 6 pts
- GAN 4 pts
- GAT 4 pts
- GNU 4 pts
- GUN 4 pts
- GUT 4 pts
- NAG 4 pts
- NUG 4 pts
- TAG 4 pts
- TUG 4 pts
- ANT 3 pts
- NUT 3 pts
- TAN 3 pts
- TAU 3 pts
- TUN 3 pts
- UTA 3 pts
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