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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: Puck evil spirit in old English stories

puckish

 adjective
     
puck‧ish [usually before noun] literary
showing that you are amused by other people, and like to make jokes about them:
a puckish grin
—puckishly adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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