mischievous

Meanings

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   adj

   playfully causing minor trouble; full of harmless pranks

   The mischievous child hid his sister's shoes.

From Middle English mischievous, from mischief, from Old French meschief ('misfortune'), from meschever ('to come to grief'), from mes- ('wrongly') + chever ('to happen, come to a head'), from chef ('head'), from Latin caput.

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