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Meanings of puckishness in English

Catalan
caprici
Spanish
sagacidad

The trait of behaving like an imp.

        caprici
        Synonyms
        Examples for "whimsicality"
        Examples for "whimsicality"
        1
        The same whimsicality is shown elsewhere in the course of the novel.
        Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
        2
        There was something in the tone of the whimsicality that alarmed her.
        Constance Dunlap
        3
        Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality.
        Young Lives
        4
        There was a casual whimsicality in its tone that always annoyed Ussa.
        Broken Circle
        5
        For a moment the whimsicality of it interrupted the current of his feeling.
        A Little Journey in the World
        1
        Alberto Iglesias's score wheezes its way to a melancholy tinged with mischievousness.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.
        The Confessions of a Beachcomber
        3
        She smiled with a sweet mischievousness-justas my father used to smile-andanswered:
        The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
        4
        Not in charity, because you are convinced of the grave social mischievousness of charity.
        Mr. Prohack
        5
        He had just the right blend of energy and mischievousness.
        The Irish Times
        1
        There was in this something of impishness, and something of other things.
        Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
        2
        Snub nose and short, bristling, red hair emphasized the impression of impishness.
        Gather, Darkness!
        3
        Kara's face instantly became serious and the impishness left her tone.
        Unity
        4
        The girl's face had gone politely blank, but then she twinkled with impishness.
        Sushi for one?
        5
        But his impishness still comes as something of a surprise.
        The Irish Times
        Usage of puckishness in English
        1
        The director's puckishness starts to grate pretty quickly.
        The Irish Times
        2
        His voice is a little raspier than it once was, but that signature puckishness is fully intact.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Here, as he rolls a joint to the disapproval of his married friend's square wife, he has Peter's insolence and puckishness.
        The Guardian
        Translations for puckishness
        Puckishness through the time