different between puckish vs puckishness

English

Puck +? -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

puckish (comparative more puckish, superlative most puckish)

Mischievous; excessively playful.
- Wolfowitz spoke softly to Yasa, who evidently had no idea who he was but responded with a puckish smile. - The New Yorker, The Next Crusade by John Cassidy, 09/04/2007 [1]

puckish +? -ness

puckishness (uncountable)

An instance of being puckish
- 2006, Klein, Joe, "Pssst! Who's behind the decline of politics?", Time Magazine, April 17, 2006
  There was some puckishness to this ... but Walinksy is a serious man and he wasn't really joking.

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