naughty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite suggestive of sexual impropriety
    blue; juicy; gamy; racy; spicy; risque; gamey.
    • a blue movie
    • blue jokes
    • he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
    • a juicy scandal
    • a naughty wink
    • naughty words
    • racy anecdotes
    • a risque story
    • spicy gossip
  2. adjective satellite badly behaved
    • a naughty boy

WordNet

Naugh"ty adjective
Wordforms
comparative Naughtier ; superlative Naughtiest
Definitions
  1. Having little or nothing. Obs.
    [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman.
  2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. Obs.
    The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer. xxiv. 2.
  3. hence, corrupt; wicked. Archaic
    So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.
  4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child. ✍ This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.

Webster 1913