Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mischievous, troublesome, or unruly person.
Wiktionary
- n. an unruly, rowdy or mischievous person
- n. an evil person
- n. the larva of the dobsonfly
- adj. cursed, ill-fated
WordNet 3.0
- n. a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
Etymologies
- Probably alteration (influenced by hell) of dialectal hallion, worthless person. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Lottie had been called a hellion, an imp, and a mischievous fiend.”
“Tom had called the woman a "hellion," therefore he was privileged to do the same, and any denial of that privilege was an iniquitous encroachment upon HIS sacred rights.”
“I thought he was all, 'Aw shucks, yes m'am, no m'am,' but he's a hellion.”
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“Suddenly Howell was getting the hang of talking to this hellion in a wheelchair.”
“Spent the next several hours surrounded by a double-sized passel of hellion children whose parental units weren't watching them or disciplining them.”
“But now, as we ebb toward the season finale, our Ade has morphed from misunderstood head case to monstrous hellion, swapping out Silver's bipolar meds and getting Navid drunk enough to believe they actually hooked up while his girlfriend was in the psych ward.”
“It's a story loosely based on my mom's three younger brothers and their early hellion ways ed. note: the movie's three boys are pictured below.”
The Huffington Post: Kat Candler: The Sundance Diaries: We Got In? Shut Up!
“Well then, my ideal wife is an unpredictable hellion, with a penchant for getting into trouble and speaking her mind.”
“On the printed page, she's no dazzling raconteur like Alec Guinness or tell-all hellion like Tallulah Bankhead.”
The Washington Post: Judi Dench's wry, shy take on a glorious stage career
“Meanwhile, that disturbingly creepy circle of hellion kids known as the Crows do everything they can to destroy Diana†™ s life and loved ones!”
DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hellion’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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scoundrels and bastards
already several of these lists, but I wanted my own
varlet, scoundrel, slubberdegullion, bastard, hooligan, boor, churl, thug, cad, ne'er-do-well, miscreant, minx and 85 more...
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xulilux's list
leviathan, destitute, iapetus, caesura, ineffable, eschew, phosphene, fungible, antediluvian, nomenclature, mottle, europa and 84 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 more...
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Unsavoury Types
insults, epithets, etc.
drotchel, drossel, drazel, flutch, lollard, scobberlotcher, ragabash, faineant, cad, buffoon, martinet, tosspot and 116 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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msc's Words
pugilist, threepeat, bloviate, palaver, syncreism, pastiche, eschatology, peripatetic, glossolalia, busker, nudnik, troglodyte and 213 more...
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jameslong's Words
tergiversate, ossify, syncretic, agenbite, enwit, doxy, borborygm, pulchritudinous, oxters, fervid, banal, asinine and 102 more...
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Words and phrases from Scott Lynch's book, The Lies of Locke Lamora
constable, windfall, sternum, commensurate, disinter, grotty, thresher shark, savvy, miser, reticent, magnanimous, trowel and 301 more...
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_mark's keywords ™
words that describe me or that i am focusing on.
( personal list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/personas--2<...satirical, dark, enigmatic, androgyny, appreciative, opinionated, inquisitive, sensitive, nonchalant, acerbic, scientific, circumspective and 220 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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