Definition of Prankful

1. full of pranks [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prankful

prang
prang up
pranged
pranging
prangos
prangs
pranic
prank
prank call
prank calls
pranked
prankee
prankees
pranker
prankers
prankful (current term)
prankier
prankiest
pranking
prankings
prankish
prankishly
prankishness
prankishnesses
prankle
prankled
prankles
prankling
pranks
pranksome

Literary usage of Prankful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"For the rest of you, though still prankful, And not model boys by a long way, have not, I 'm exceedingly thankful To say, yet compelled me to take this ..."

2. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1843)
"There is certainly a great change for the better since the days when the spirits of prankful urchins were hardly kept in awe by the terror of the ..."

3. The Yellow Book (1895)
"... and keep up my Italian by studying the leaders of Mr. Sala ; my Pall Mall Gazette ... I really can't think why, unless it be to enjoy the prankful ..."

4. The Lives of the Players by John Galt (1831)
"... and lively talents, was not distinguished for application to his studies ; on the contrary, he was a prankful truant, and study was to him drudgery. ..."

5. The Literary Life and Miscellanies of John Galt by John Galt (1834)
"I WAS surely born a Radical, and owe my Tory predilections entirely to a prankful elf, who, delighting in the ridiculous, has in high times and holidays, ..."

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