mischief

Meaning

Noun

• Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
• A playfully annoying action.
• A group or a pack of rats.
• Harm or injury:
• A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
• A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.
• The Devil; .

Related

Similar words

• 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

Origin

• From Middle English myschef, meschef, meschief, mischef, from Old French meschief, from meschever, from mes- + chever, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin caput