waggishly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

waggish +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

waggishly (comparative more waggishly, superlative most waggishly)

  1. In a waggish manner.
    • 1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion.”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1856, →OCLC, page 14:
      ‘Doctor,’ says I, looking waggishly at him, ‘do you know ever a rhyme for Aristotle?’ ‘Port, if you plaise,’ says Mr. Goldsmith, laughing. And we had six rhymes for Aristotle before we left the coffee-house that evening.
    • 1959, John Knowles, chapter 11, in A Separate Peace:
      "Who was ahead?"
      Leper smiled waggishly. "I couldn't see that...."