naughty

«naughty» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: worthless, wicked — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

worthless, wicked

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Bad, worthless or wicked; of no value. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means a child who behaves badly; the old sense of worthless or wicked is no longer used, and the sentences use today's sense.

examples

• I never knew her so naughty before.” (Peter Pan) tree →
• You naughty children--how could you be so disobedient? (The Book of Dragons) tree →
• “Fie!” said he. “How naughty a boy Cupid is! (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

naughty

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 71 (Torah 0, tales 71, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• "xiǎo pìhái" means brat or little pest; adults say it about naughty children and it is a bit rude.
• "Cheeky monkey" means a naughty or rude child, said fondly (UK).
• "Little terror" means a very naughty child (jokey).
• "The naughty step" means a place where a child must sit as a punishment (UK).
• "Rascal" means a mischievous, naughty child, said fondly.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «naughty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.