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English
Etymology
From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
naughty (comparative naughtier, superlative naughtiest)
- Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.
- 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!
- (now rare, archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
1589, John Bucke, Instructions for the Use of the Beades:my proneſſe to ſinne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.
1542, Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge:In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty Englysshe, and the other is Cornysshe speche.
Alternative forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "immoral; cheeky"): nice
Derived terms
Translations
bad; tending to misbehave or act badly
- Arabic: شِرِّير (ar) (širrīr), (indefinite) مُؤْذٍ (muʔḏin), (definite) الْمُؤْذِي (al-muʔḏī)
- Armenian: չար (hy) (čʻar)
- Azerbaijani: yaramaz (az)
- Belarusian: непаслухмя́ны (njepasluxmjány)
- Bulgarian: непослушен (bg) m (neposlušen), немирен (bg) (nemiren), невъзпитан (bg) (nevǎzpitan)
- Catalan: trapella (ca), entremaliat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 曳 (yue) (jai5)
- Mandarin: 頑皮/顽皮 (zh) (wánpí), 淘氣/淘气 (zh) (táoqì), 調皮/调皮 (zh) (tiáopí)
- Danish: slem (da), uartig (da)
- Dutch: stout (nl), ondeugend (nl)
- Esperanto: fia (eo), petola
- Finnish: tuhma (fi), ilkeä (fi)
- French: malicieux (fr), malin (fr), méchant (fr), vilain (fr)
- Georgian: ცელქი (celki)
- German: ungezogen (de), unartig (de), ungehorsam (de), dreist (de), frech (de)
- Greek: άτακτος (el) (átaktos)
- Guaraní: saraki
- Hebrew: שׁוֹבָב (he) m (shováv)
- Hindi: नटखट (hi) (naṭkhaṭ)
- Hungarian: rossz (hu), csintalan (hu), csibész (hu), pajkos (hu), huncut (hu)
- Indonesian: nakal (id)
- Irish: dalba
- Italian: birichino (it), furbetto (it), malizioso (it)
- Japanese: わんぱくな (ja) (wanpaku-na), いたずらな (ja) (itazura-na), やんちゃな (ja) (yancha-na), 行儀が悪い (ぎょうぎがわるい, gyōgi-ga warui)
- Kabuverdianu: abuzadu, abuzóde
- Korean: 장난꾸러기의 (jangnankkureogiui)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ناڕەحەت (narreḧet)
- Latin: improbus
- Latvian: nerātns
- Macedonian: палав m (palav), непослушен m (neposlušen), немирен m (nemiren)
- Malayalam: വികൃതി (ml) (vikr̥ti)
- Maori: rawemākoi, haututū
- Norwegian: uskikkelig
- Persian: تخس (fa) (toxs), الپر (fa) (alpar), آلپر (fa) (âlpar)
- Plautdietsch: goaschtrich
- Polish: niegrzeczny (pl) m, psotny (pl) m, nieposłuszny (pl) m
- Portuguese: travesso (pt), levado (pt)
- Russian: озорно́й (ru) (ozornój), непослу́шный (ru) (neposlúšnyj), шаловли́вый (ru) (šalovlívyj), шкодли́вый (ru) (škodlívyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: crosta
- Spanish: travieso (es), maleducado (es)
- Swedish: stygg (sv)
- Tagalog: makulit, pilyo
- Thai: ซน (th) (son), ดื้อ (th) (dʉ̂ʉ)
- Tibetan: སྒྲིག་ཉེས་པོ (sgrig nyes po)
- Turkish: yaramaz (tr), haşarı (tr), haylaz (tr), bacaksız (tr)
- Ukrainian: неслухня́ний (nesluxnjányj)
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risqué, sexually suggestive
- Danish: uartig (da), fræk
- Dutch: ondeugend (nl), gewaagd (nl), gedurfd (nl), brutaal (nl), vuil (nl)
- Finnish: tuhma (fi)
- French: risqué (fr)
- Galician: piardeiro m
- German: frech (de), unanständig (de), versaut (de)
- Hindi: नटखट (hi) (naṭkhaṭ)
- Hungarian: pikáns (hu), sikamlós (hu), illetlen (hu), pajzán (hu), huncut (hu)
- Italian: provocante (it), osceno (it)
- Japanese: きわどい (ja) (kiwadoi), みだらな (ja) (midara-na), エッチな (ja) (etchi-na)
- Macedonian: палав m (palav)
- Norwegian: frekk, uforskamma
- Portuguese: safado (pt)
- Spanish: obsceno (es), picante (es), cachondo
- Turkish: yaramaz (tr), çapkın (tr)
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Translations to be checked
Verb
naughty (third-person singular simple present naughties, present participle naughtying, simple past and past participle naughtied)
- To perform sexual acts upon.
References
- ^ “noughtī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “nought, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “-ī̆, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.