different between devilry vs mischief
devilry
English
Alternative forms
- deviltry
Etymology
From Middle English develrye; equivalent to devil +? -ry.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?v.?l.?i/, /?d?v.?l.?i/
- enPR: d?v'?l-r?
Noun
devilry (countable and uncountable, plural devilries)
- mischief.
- Wickedness; cruelty.
- An action performed with the help of a devil; witchcraft.
- An act of such mischief, wickedness, cruelty, or witchcraft.
Translations
devilry From the web:
- what devilry is this
- what is meant by devilry
- what new devilry is this
- what new devilry is this gif
- what jedi devilry is this
- what does delivery mean
- what new devilry is this meme
- what do devilry meaning
mischief
English
Etymology
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 Vulgar Latin *capare, from Latin caput (“head”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?st??f/, /?m??t??f/
- Rhymes: -?st??f
Noun
mischief (countable and uncountable, plural mischiefs)
- (uncountable) Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- Synonyms: delinquency, naughtiness, roguery, scampishness; see also Thesaurus:villainy, Thesaurus:mischief
- (countable) A playfully annoying action.
- (collective) A group or a pack of rats.
- 2014, G. W. Rennie, The Rat Chronicles, iUniverse ?ISBN, page 21
- Kirac, the leader of the rats under his charge, speaks to the major through his telepathic abilities that manifested after the alien virus infected him and his mischief of rats.
- 2015, Rachel Smith, John Davidson, Rats For Kids, Mendon Cottage Books ?ISBN, page 6
- A group of rats is not a herd or a gaggle, but a pack or a mischief of rats. Rats in general are omnivorous, meaning they will eat almost anything.
- 2014, G. W. Rennie, The Rat Chronicles, iUniverse ?ISBN, page 21
- (archaic) Harm or injury:
- (uncountable) Harm or trouble caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 8:
- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 8:
- (countable) An injury or an instance of harm or trouble caused by a person or other agent or cause.
- (uncountable) Harm or trouble caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.
- (law) A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
- (archaic, countable) A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.
- Synonyms: bad boy, knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue; see also Thesaurus:villain, Thesaurus:troublemaker
- (euphemistic) The Devil; used as an expletive.
- 1967, The Statesman (volume 12, page 260)
- What the mischief are you? and how the mischief did you get here, and where in thunder did you come from?
- 1967, The Statesman (volume 12, page 260)
- (Australia) Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.
Synonyms
- (harm or injury): agitation, annoyance, corruption, damage, demolition, destruction, detriment, disablement, disruption, evil, harm, hurt, ill, impairment, incapacitation, injury, nuisance, pique, ravage, sabotage, scathe, trouble, undoing, unmaking, vexation, weakening, wrong
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- mischief at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Mischief in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Middle English
Noun
mischief
- Alternative form of myschef
mischief From the web:
- what mischief does the speaker do
- what mischief means
- what mischief are you up to
- what mischief was he doing
- what mischief can i get up to
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