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PUCKISH
Definition of PUCKISH
adjective
Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
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Other senses
PUCKISH carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Mischievous; impish.
“a puckish grin; puckish wit.”
Resembling the fairy Puck; like what Puck might do; merry.
adjective
Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.
adjective
mischievous; excessively playful.
Where it comes from
From Puck + -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
PUCKISH in a sentence
“Mr. Galentine was quieter, but possessed what the couple's longtime neighbor described as a puckish sense of humor.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUCKISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 217 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PUCKISH starts with P and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read CHIKPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PUCKISH. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PUCKIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found PUCKISH?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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