naughty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   badly behaved

   a naughty boy

2. 2
   adj

   Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).

   Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.

3. 3
   adj

   Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.

   I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.

4. 4
   adj

   Decadent, had as indulgence, especially an unhealthy one.

   You knew I had to include at least one naughty chocolate smoothie, didn't you?!

5. 5
   adj

   Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.

   my proneſſe to ſinne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell

6. 6
   adj

   Bad, worthless, substandard.

   In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty Englysshe, and the other is Cornysshe speche.

7. 7
   adj

   suggestive of sexual impropriety

8. 8
   verb

   To perform sexual acts.

Etymology

From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.