mischief
noun · verbB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
Drink led to mischief.
Đồng nghĩa: delinquency, naughtiness, roguery, scampishness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, corruption, corruptness, criminality, dacoity, depravity, enormity, evil, evilness, immorality, knavery, nefariousness, rascality, savagery, scoundrelry, scumminess, turpitude, vileness, villainhood, villainousness, villainry, villainy, wickedness
- 2.
(countable)A playfully annoying action.
John's mischief, tying his shoelaces together, irked George at first.
- 3.
(collective, countable, uncountable)A group or a pack of rats.
- 4.
(archaic) Harm or injury:
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)(law) A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
- 6.
(archaic, countable)A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.
Đồng nghĩa: bad boy, knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, antimodel, bad guy, baddie, bastard, beggar, blackguard, bounder, cad, coistril, evildoer, fustilarian, harlot, heavy, knave, lidderon, makeshift, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, niding, nithing, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scab, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scum, scumbag, thug, undesirable, varlet, villain, agitator, bad boy, bad news, bear, beggar, bhoy, blackguard, booger, boot boy, bovver boy, brat, brawler, breedbate, buffoon, bugger, bully, charva, cutup, devil, elf, enfant terrible, firebrand, gadfly, hell-raiser, hood, hoodlum, hool, hoolie, hooligan, hothead, imp, inciter, initiator, instigator, jackanapes, joker, jokester, kindle-coal, kindle-fire, knave, lout, makebate, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, pixie, pot stirrer, practical joker, prankster, puck, punk, rabble rouser, rakeshame, rantipole, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, roly-poly, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, shit disturber, shitmonger, shit-stirrer, tearaway, thug, titivil, tough, troublemaker, undesirable, vandal, wag, wagpastie, wrangler, yob, yobbo
- 7.
(countable, euphemistic, uncountable)The Devil; used as an expletive.
- 8.
(Australia, countable, uncountable)Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(obsolete, transitive)To do a mischief to; to harm.
- 2.
(obsolete, transitive)To slander.
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From Middle English myschef, meschef, meschief, mischef, from Old French meschief, from meschever (to bring to grief), from mes- (badly) + chever (happen; come to a head), from *capare, from Latin caput (head).