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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1812, 1878-1879
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MISCHIEVOUS, adj. Also Sc. forms: mischeevous (Mry. 1873 J. Brown Round Table Club 360; Fif., Lth., Ayr. 1923–6 Wilson); mischievious (Fif. 1882 S. Tytler Sc. Marriages I. iii.; Mry. 1908 J. Mackinnon Braefoot Sk. 43); mische(e)vious (Sc. 1736 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1885) 617; Slk. 1892 W. M. Adamson Betty Blether 42; Sth. 1897 E. W. B. Nicholson Golspie 93; Abd. 1928 P. Grey Making of a King 56). Sc. usage: grievous, damaging, hurtful. [mɪs′tʃi:vəs, so stressed in Eng. till c.1700, mɪs′tʃi:viəs]m.Lth. 1812 P. Forbes Poems 61:
He got a vile mischievous thump Just on the shoulder.Ags. a.1879 Forfar Poets (Fenton) 124:
See his energy and firmness In each wild mischievous ploy.
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