waggish

• It is exceeding waggish, and much imitating his Lordship's way of speaking Paul's Church-yard; Libri Theologici, Politici, Historici, mundinis Paulinis (una cum Templo) prostant venales, &c.; printed in three several sheets in 4to. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II
• Whether I am with the wise or the waggish, among poets or among pugilists, over the book or over the bottle, you are sure to connect yourself transcendently with all, and come 'armed for every field' into my memory So much did this extreme mobility,--this readiness to be "strongly acted on by what was nearest,"--abound in his disposition, that, even with the casual acquaintances of the hour, his heart was upon his lips[1], and it depended wholly upon themselves whether they might not become at once the depositories of every secret, if it might be so called, of his whole life. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• Another week passed; Mr. Carlyle was becoming inexpressibly waggish, and Carrados himself, although he did not abate a jot of his conviction, was compelled to bend to the realities of the situation. —  Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
• She was a girl of some beauty, but her face was most engaging from a kind of waggish intelligence that it had Tst!" —  The Penalty
• As the wine circulates, it is noticeable that good-fellowship grows almost boisterous, and facetiousness mellows into chuckling cynicism of the winking, waggish, "we all do it" sort. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890

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