puckishly

1. 1.

   in an appealing but bold manner

   “she asked him impishly to come in”

   Synonymsimpishly

Questions about puckishly

What does puckishly mean?

puckishly means "in an appealing but bold manner".

How many syllables are in puckishly?

puckishly has 3 syllables: puc-kish-ly. The stress falls on "puc".

What is another word for puckishly?

Close synonyms include impishly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is puckishly a common word?

puckishly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.