Reverse Dictionary: MIS – MISC

MISADVENTURE – nouns
– ANTER an adventure, a misadventure; a story of adventure, an unlikely story …1881 Eng. dial.
– AUNTER an adventure, a misadventure; a story of adventure, an unlikely story …1881 Eng. dial.
– BAD IRON failure; misadventure; bad luck …Bk1896 workmen’s sl.
– ILL SUCCESS failure, misadventure, misfortune …1823 arch.
– MISAUNTER, MISANTER a misadventure, a mishap …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISCANTER a misadventure; a mischance …1781 Eng. dial.  
 
MISANTHROPE – adjectives
– TIMONIAN pert. to misanthropy; like a misanthrope …1770
misanthrope – person 
– TIMON a misanthrope; a person who dislikes humans and avoids human society …1588
– TIMONIST a misanthrope …1602
misanthrope – verbs 
– TIMONIZE to play the misanthrope …1713
 
MISANTHROPY – nouns
– TIMONISM misanthropy …1886
 
MISBEHAVE, MISBEHAVING – adjectives
– OFF THE TRACK misbehaving, making mistakes, being inconsistent …20C sl.
– OFF TRACK misbehaving, making mistakes, being inconsistent …20C sl.
– TANKERSOME unruly, disobedient, misbehaving …1969 Amer. dial.
misbehave, misbehaving – person 
– GANCH an awkward, silly fellow; a fool; a boor; an ignoramus; someone who behaves badly …Bk1880 N. Ireland
– GRAND RASCAL a mischievous or misbehaving child …1966 Amer. dial.
– HELLCAT a small disobedient, misbehaving child …1965 Amer. dial.
– HUSSY, HUZZY formerly: a woman; a lass; hence, a strong country woman; a woman of low social status; also, a disreputable woman of improper behaviour, or of light or worthless character; a badly-behaved, pert, or mischievous girl …1647
– KEWSTER a small, rough, misbehaving child …1967 Amer. dial.
– LITTLE OUTLAW a small, rough child who misbehaves and doesn’t obey …1965 Amer. dial.
– OUTLAW one who is crude or ill-mannered; a misfit; a child who misbehaves; an insignificant person; an immoral woman …1965 Amer. dial.
– RING-TAILED SNORTER a small, misbehaving child …1968 Amer. dial.
– WILD INDIAN a child, esp. a misbehaving or unruly one …1946 Amer. dial.
– YARD DOG an ill-dressed, badly behaved individual …1944 US Black sl. 
– YOUNG INDIAN a child, esp. a misbehaving or unruly one …1967 Amer. dial.
misbehave, misbehaving – verbs
– ACT LIKE SANCHO of a child: to act in an unruly or mischievous way; to misbehave …1869 Amer. dial.
– ACT THE MOHAWK to misbehave …1960s Irish sl.
– ACT UP to make a fuss in order to attract attention to oneself; to misbehave badly or improperly, esp. to impress …1903 sl.
– CUT UP EXTRAS to misbehave …1842 US sl.
– DISBEHAVE to misbehave, to behave badly …Bk1900 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– MONKEY-SHINE to misbehave; to play tricks …20C US sl.
– TRY ONESELF to behave in an unruly or extravagant manner; to misbehave, to be naughty, to show off …1912 Amer. dial.
misbehave – phrases 
– THROUGH THE BOWS said of one who misbehaves and suffers punishment …Bk1911 Sc.
 
MISBEHAVIOUR – nouns
– ‘HAVISHNESS misbehaviour …1883 Amer. dial.
– MISCARRIAGE misconduct, misbehaviour …1642 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– MONKEY BUSINESS foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour …1883 Amer. sl.
– MONKEY CAPERS monkey business …1846 Amer. sl.
– MONKEY PLAY foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour …1953 Amer. sl.
– MONKEY WORK foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour …1942 Amer. sl.
 
MISBELIEVER – person
– MALE-FIDIAN † a misbeliever …1659 nonce word
 
MISCALCULATE – verbs
– DULL to make a mistake, miscalculation, or stupid blunder …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
 
MISCARRIAGE – nouns
– ABORCEMENT † abortion; premature expulsion of the foetus, miscarriage …1540
– ABORSEMENT † abortion; premature expulsion of the foetus, miscarriage …1540
– ABORT † a miscarriage; an untimely birth …1611
– MIS, MISS a miscarriage …1897 sl.
– MISHAP a miscarriage in child-bearing …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
 
MISCARRY – verbs
– ADVORT † to miscarry …1572
 
MISCELLANEOUS – adjectives 
– FARRAGINARY †* confused, miscellaneous …1538
– FARRAGINOUS miscellaneous, indiscriminate, confused …1615
– GALLIMAUFRICAL miscellaneous …1836
– ODD-AND-END miscellaneous, consisting of odds and ends …1863
miscellaneous – nouns
– ALLSORTS all kinds or varieties of things; miscellaneous items …1794 colloq.
– ALTOGETHERS † miscellaneous items used or considered collectively …1655
– FARGIS a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles …1824 Sc.
– FARKAGE a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles …1824 Sc.
– FARKEL † a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles …1824 Sc.
– FARKISH a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles …1824 Sc.
– FERKISH a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles …1824 Sc.
– GADDERY a miscellaneous collection …1825 Sc.
– GEDDERY an accumulation, a miscellaneous collection …1825 Sc.
– HATTEREL a large quantity; a miscellaneous collection, a jumble …1823 Sc. & N. Ireland
– HATTREL a large quantity; a miscellaneous collection, a jumble …1823 Sc.
– ODD-COME-SHORT-LUMS small miscellaneous articles; odd fragments …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ODD-COME-SHORTS small miscellaneous articles; odd fragments …1738
– ODDSES odds and ends; small miscellaneous articles; the change or balance of money …1893 Eng. dial.
– RAG-BAG an odd assortment; a miscellaneous collection of anything …1864
– SHEBOODLE a large number; a large and miscellaneous collection of things or people …1966 Amer. dial.
– VAN-JOTTHERY a miscellaneous collection ….1889 Eng. dial.
 
MISCHANCE – nouns
– HAPS an event or occurrence which befalls one; a chance, accident, happening; often, an unfortunate event, mishap, mischance …c1205
– MALAPAVIS a mischance, a misfortune …1825 Sc.
– MALCHANCE mischance …1911 Sc.
– MISCHANTER a misfortune, mischance, accident; ill-luck …1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– MISHANTER a misfortune, mischance, accident; ill-luck …1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– UNCHANCE mischance, misfortune, a calamity …a1400-50 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
 
MISCHIEF, MISCHIEVOUS – adjectives 
– ANGLE-EARED mischievous …B1900 Eng. dial.
– ANNOINTED ripe for mischief, full of courage and energy for any desperate exploit …Bk1890 sl.
– ANOINTING mischievous …B1900 Eng. dial.
– AUVISH, AWVISH silly, dull, stupid, clownish, mischievous …1819 Eng. dial.
– AWF-STRUCKEN silly, dull, stupid, clownish, mischievous …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BALEFUL full of malign, deadly, or noxious influence; pernicious, destructive, noxious, injurious, mischievous, malignant …a1000
– BESPELT bewitched, mischievous …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CALEERY light, vain, full of mischief …1880 Sc. & Ireland
– CUNNING AS A WAGON-LOAD OF MONKEYS, AS very cunning, with a considerable admixture of mischievousness to go with it …20C colloq.
– CUNNING AS A WHOLE WAGON-LOAD OF MONKEYS, AS very cunning, with a considerable admixture of mischievousness to go with it …20C colloq.
– ELVISH irritable, spiteful, mischievous …1813 Eng. dial.
– EVIL-DEEDY given to evil deeds; mischievous …1535 now Sc.
– FRACK, FRECK † keen for mischief …c1275
– FULL OF OLD NICK always making mischief …Bk1990 Amer. sl.
– FULL OF THE OLD NED mischievous, troublesome …1959 Amer. dial.
– GADAMAN † roguish, mischievous …1876 Eng. dial.
– GAFTY sly, tricky, cunning, not to be trusted; mischievous, vicious …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GALLOUS mischievous …Bk1887 Eng. dial.
– GALLOWS mischievous, wild, impish, unmanageable, tiresome; impudent, saucy …1875 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HATTLE wild, skittish, mischievous; uncertain in temper; often used of a skittish cow …1691 Eng. dial.
– HAWFISH silly, dull, stupid, clownish, mischievous …1819 Eng. dial.
– IDLE mischievous, full of fun; saucy; flippant; restless …1892 Eng. dial.
– ILL-BREEDING concocting mischief …1800
– ILL-CONTRIVED ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous …1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-CONTRIVING ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous …1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-DEEDED mischievous, evilly disposed …1822 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-DEEDIE mischievous, evilly disposed …1822 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-DEEDY given to evil deeds; mischievous …c1460 now Sc.
– ILL-DONE wrong, mischievous, ill-advised …1894 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-GAISHONED mischievous …Bk1905 Sc.
– ILL-MAKING mischief-making …1898 Sc.
– ILL-PRATTIE roguish, mischievous …Bk1905 Sc.
– ILL-PROTTED roguish, mischievous …Bk1905 Sc.
– ILL-TRICKED roguish, mischievous …1873 Sc.
– ILL-TRICKY mischievous, roguish …1873 Sc.
– IMPY mischievous …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– KILEERY full of mischief …Ireland
– LARKISH adj. fond of a lark or a piece of merriment or mischief; frolicsome, sportive …1882 colloq.
– LIMMISH inclined to mischief …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– LOBSTROPOLOUS obstreperous, loud, noisy, mischievous …1891 Eng. dial.
– MALEFICENT mischievous, acting with evil intent or effect …1760
– MALVERISH badly behaved, mischievous, bad-mannered …1880 Sc.
– MEDDLE-MAKING – mischief-making, strife-sowing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MESSLIN extremely lively, mischievous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIRACLE mischievous …Bk1903 Sc.  
– MIRACULOUS of a child: lively, mischievous, precocious …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISCHANCY unlucky; risky, dangerous; mischievous …1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– MISCHANT † bad, mischievous …Bk1903 Sc.  
– MISCHIEFFUL mischievous, full of mischief …1864 Eng. dial.  
– MISCHIEVOUS-BORN of a mischievous disposition …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISDEEDY † doing wrong; mischievous …a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MISHTERFUL mischievous, full of mischief …1864 Eng. dial.  
– NAZZLY bad-tempered; rude, mischievous …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– NINETING mischievous …B1900 Eng. dial.
– NOINTING mischievous …B1900 Eng. dial.
– OFFENDANT † causing injury or mischief …1547
– PESTEROUS troublesome, given to pestering, teasing, mischievous …1806 Amer. dial.
– PLISKY given to playing tricks; tricky, mischievous, frolicsome …1887 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– PUCKISH mischievous, impish …1870
– QUERTY † lively, vivacious, active, in good spirits; full of fun or mischief …1790 Sc.
– QUIRTY † lively, vivacious, active, in good spirits; full of fun or mischief …1790 Sc.
– RANK wild, uncontrollable, mischievous, cunning …1892 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– RATCHETTY noisy, roistering; pleasure-seeking, mischievous …1894 Eng. dial.
– RATCHETY noisy, roistering; pleasure-seeking, mischievous …1894 Eng. dial.
– ROGUISH playfully mischievous …L17
– RONKISH precociously wanton, mischievous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SAD mischievous, troublesome, corrupt …17C sl.
– SCADDLE wild, mischievous, unsteady; thievish, esp. used of a cat or dog …1691 Eng. dial.
– SCATHY ravenous; mischievous; thievish …1691 Eng. dial.
– SINISTRAL † likely to cause mischief …1534
– SKADDLE wild, mischievous, unsteady; thievish, esp. used of a cat or dog …1691 Eng. dial.
– SLY playfully mischievous or malicious; roguish, waggish …a1771
– UNCANNIE of persons: not safe to meddle with, as supposedly being in league with supernatural forces or having skill in magic, witchcraft or the like, malignant, baleful, mischievous …1773 Sc.
– UNCANNY † unruly, mischievous, malicious …1596 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– UNCHANCY mischievous; dangerous; risky; not safe to meddle with …1786 chiefly Sc.
– UNLUCKY mischievous, troublesome …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNPOSSIBLE droll, mischievous, queer …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNSONSY mischievous; disagreeable …1800 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– VILD unpleasant, disagreeable, portending evil or mischief, disgusting, filthy …1836 Sc.
– WAGGISH playfully mischievous …1590
– WAGSOME addicted to waggery; mischievous …1869 nonce word
– WANSONSY mischievous …1819 Sc.
mischief, mischievous – nouns
– BALE evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, blasting, injuring, hurting, paining, tormenting; fatal, dire, or malign quality of influence; woe, mischief, harm, injury; in earlier use often: death, infliction of death …a1000
– BALE-SITHE † death, destruction; evil-doing, mischief; evil fortune, calamity …a1000
– BARN’S-BREAKING a mischievous action; an idle frolic …1822 Sc.
– BLOIK mischief …Bk1911 Sc.
– CAGMAG a practical joke, mischief …19C Eng. dial.
– CALEERINESS giddiness; fun; mischief …1880 Sc. & Ireland
– DANGER † mischief, harm, damage …c1400
– DEVILMENT mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery …1844 Amer. dial.
– DEVILTRY mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery, wickedness, devilry …1839 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– DISHORT a mischief, injury; a disappointment …1535 Sc.
– GALLOUSNESS mischief, wantonness, love of mischief …1859 Eng. dial.
– GALLOWSNESS mischief, perversity …1859 Eng. dial.
– GALLUSNESS mischief, wantonness, love of mischief …1859 Eng. dial.
– HOYDER injury, mischief …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– JEEL damage, mischief …1887 Eng. dial.
– LARK a frolicsome adventure; a spree; a piece of merriment or mischief; fun of any kind; a trick …1802 colloq.
– MAKEBATE † the breeding of quarrels, mischief-making …1626
– MALEFICE † an evil deed; mischief …1591 obs. or arch.
– MALICHO, MALLECHO † mischief, wickedness …1603
– MARLOCK a prank, frolic, a gambol, a lark; a playful trick, a practical joke; a piece of fun or mischief …1864 Eng. dial.
– MEDDLE-MAKING mischief-making; strife-sowing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MELANCHOLY mischief …1898 Sc.
– MICHING MALICHO, MICHING MALLECHO secret or underhand mischief …1603
– MIFKY-PIFKY foolishness or mischief, esp. of a romantic or sexual nature; sexual activity; hanky panky …1985 Amer. jocular
– MINCHIN MALACHO mischief …17C sl.
– MIRSHTY mischief …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
– MISCHY mischief …Bk1890 Eng. dial.
– MONKEY BUSINESS mischief, foolishness …1883 US sl.
– MONKEY WORK mischievous or underhanded activity, monkey business …1898 Amer. dial.
– MOOFKY-POOFKY foolishness or mischief, esp. of a romantic or sexual nature; sexual activity; hanky panky …1994 Amer. jocular
– MOOFTY-POOFTY foolishness or mischief, esp. of a romantic or sexual nature; sexual activity; hanky panky …1996 Amer. jocular
– MURCHY mischief …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
– NAAM a trick, a sign of an evil or mischievous disposition …1911 Sc.
– NAUGHT † wickedness, evil, moral wrong, mischief …c897
– NOIANCE * annoyance, mischief, hurt, harm …a1400
– OLD NICK devilishness, mischief …1817 US sl.
– PANT a prank, a frolic, a ‘lark’, a piece of fun, a caper, a piece of boyish mischief …1894 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– PLISKY a mischievous escapade; a trick, a prank; a practical joke; a frolic …1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– QUED † evil, mischief, harm …a1225
– QUEDE † evil, mischief, harm …a1225
– SCADDLE confusion; mischief …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCADE hurt, damage, harm, mischief …1899 Sc.
– SCHMOOFKY-FOOFKY foolishness or mischief, esp. of a romantic or sexual nature; sexual activity; hanky panky …1997 Amer. jocular
– SHENANIGANS mischief; prankishness …19C Amer. colloq.
– SKADE hurt, damage, harm, mischief …1899 Sc.
– TORFER† hardship, trouble, distress; harm, mischief, injury …a1300
– UNITHARF † evil, mischief …c1200
– WAGGERY a piece of mischievous jesting; a practical joke …1604
– WAGGISHNESS sportive mischief; jocularity of speech or behaviour …1625
– WAGS tricks, mischievous behaviour …1835 Sc.
– WAGSHIP † waggery, waggishness,  mischief, practical joking …1607
mischief, mischievous – person
– ANOINTER a scapegrace, a complete rogue or rascal, a mischievous fellow …1884 Eng. dial.
– APE a mischievous, troublesome child …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– AUPS, AWPS a wayward, mischievous child …Bk1898 Eng, dial.
– AZZALD a peevish, wayward, mischievous child …1891 Eng. dial.
– AZZARD a peevish, wayward, mischievous child …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BADDIE an unpleasant person, spec. a criminal, a hoodlum, a tough guy; a mischievous person …1939 sl. 
– BAD HAT a mischievous or wayward person; a rascal; a troublemaker; an habitual brawler; a dangerous person …1831 sl.
– BANDAR an impudent or mischievous man or boy …2014 Hindi
– BASTARD a term of reproach for a mischievous or worthless boy …1830 Eng. dial.
– BEGGAR a small or mischievous child or person, as ‘little beggar’…1833
– BESOM a term of contempt applied to a person, generally a woman; sometimes to a woman of loose character, and sometimes jocularly to a woman or young girl; an ill-natured woman; a mischievous girl or young woman …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BILDERT a term of contempt; a slightly mischievous, irresponsible youth; a rascal …Bk1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BISPEL a term of reproach applied in general to young persons, and charging them with being mischievous rather than vicious …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
– BISSOM, BIZZOM, BIZZUM a term of contempt applied to a person, generally a woman; sometimes to a woman of loose character, and sometimes jocularly to a woman or young girl; an ill-natured woman; a mischievous girl or young woman …1808 Sc.
– BITTER-WEED a bad-tempered, unruly, mischievous person …Bk1882 Eng. dial.
– BRATCHART a pert, mischievous child; a silly person; a true lover …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRATCHET a pert, mischievous child; a silly person; a true lover …Bk1911 Sc.
– BREED-BATE † one who breeds ‘bate’, or contention or strife; a quarrelsome person; one who incites to mischief …1593
– BUCKIE, BUCKY a perverse or refractory person; a mischievous or lively boy …1719 Sc.
​- CALEERY a giddy, hysterical person; a mischievous, scatterbrained, overexcitable person …20C Ireland
– CATBIRD a mischievous, sly or cunning person …1931 Amer. dial.
– CLANG-BANGER a talebearer, a gossiping mischief-maker …1870 Eng. dial.
– CUT-UP a person who ‘cuts up’ or capers; one who behaves in a mischievous or unruly manner …1882
– DAD-OF-ALL-RINGTAILS those who are eminently mischievous, or of notorious character …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
– DEVIL’S BUCKIE a mischievous, troublesome person; an imp …1816 Sc.
– DEVILSKIN a mischievous, tiresome person; a humorous term of reproach …1874 Eng. dial.
– DUMMOCK a stupid or mischievous child …19C Eng. dial.
– FLIBBERTIGIBBET a person resembling the character so called in Scott’s ‘Kenilworth’: a person of grotesque appearance and restless manners; an impish-looking, mischievous, and flighty urchin …1826
– GAMINE a female gamin or street urchin; an attractively pert, mischievous, or elfish girl or young woman, usually small and slim, and with short hair …1848
– GILPEY, GILPIE, GILPY 1. † a young man or boy, esp. a lively, mischievous or impudent one; a roguish boy …1718 Sc.
2. * (sometimes derogatory) a young girl, esp. a lively, mischievous, bold, saucy, or forward one; a tomboy …1720 Sc. & Irish English
– GRAND RASCAL a mischievous or misbehaving child …1966 Amer. dial.
– HANIEL, HANNIEL a lout; a lazy, awkward, good-for-nothing fellow; a worthless, mischievous person; a general term of abuse …1783 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HEIFER a mischievous child …1982 Amer. dial.
– HELLER an energetic and aggressive person, esp. one who is mischievous and menacing …1895 US students’ sl.
– HORROR a mischievous child …1846 sl.
– HUSSIAN a troublesome, mischievous child …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– HUSSY, HUZZY formerly: a woman; a lass; hence, a strong country woman; a woman of low social status; also, a disreputable woman of improper behaviour, or of light or worthless character; a badly-behaved, pert, or mischievous girl …1647
– IMP a mischievous brat; orig. a child …1771 sl.
– JACKABAUN a mischievous person not to be trusted …1982 Newfoundland sl. 
– JACKANAPES a playful term for a pert, forward child; a mischievous child; a ‘monkey’ …c1555
– JACKI-NAPES a mischievous lad …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– JADEHOPPER a lewd or vicious woman; also, one who is only mischievous and lively …1916 Amer. dial.
– KADDIE an ill-natured or mischievous person; a spoiled child …1866 Sc.
– KAE a thievish, mischievous person …1789 Sc.
– KAIL CASTER, KALE-CASTER a mischievous person who throws stalks of kail, cabbage, etc. down chimneys for sport …1899 Sc.
– KAY a thievish, mischievous person …1789 Sc.
– KEDGE a mischievous child …1781 Eng. dial.
– KEEKUM a mischievous little child …1959 Sc.
– KELP a mischievous young person …1818 Sc.
– KELPIE a mischievous young person …1818 Sc.
– KNIDGET a mischievous, saucy boy or girl …B1900 Sc.
– LAD a mischievous, tricky fellow …19C Anglo-Irish
– LARK a person, esp. a young and mischievous one …1835 Amer. dial.
– LARKER a person given to fun or mischief’; a frolicking rascal …c1825 sl.
– LARKIE, LARKY a person, esp. a young and mischievous one …1833 Amer. dial.
– LARKY-BOY a mischief-maker …20C Irish sl.
– LARRIKIN a mischievous or frolicsome youngster; a hooligan, a hoodlum, a rowdy …1868 sl.
– LIMB OF SATAN a wicked or mischievous person, esp. a child …1851 Amer. dial.
– LIMMER 1. a malevolent or mischievous woman …1752 Sc.
2. a mischievous boy …1880 Sc.
– LITTLE HORROR a mischievous child …1846 sl.
– LITTLE MONKEY a mischievous child …1819 sl.
– LITTLE PERISHER a mischievous child …1935 sl.
– LITTLE SKEEZUCKS. a mischievous child, gen. endearing usage …1914 Amer. dial.
– LITTLE TYKE a mischievous child …1894 sl.
– MAKEBATE one who or something which creates contention or discord; a breeder of strife; a mischief-maker; a quarrelsome person …1529 arch.
– MALISON a mischievous child …1920 Sc.
– MALLEKO a mischief-maker …Bk1890 gypsy usage
– MESS a witty, clever, or mischievous person; an objectionable or foolish person; an unruly or incorrigible person …1936 Amer. dial. 
– MESSLIN a lively, mischievous person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MICHIN a skulking boy, one who is sly in doing mischief …Bk1828 Eng. dial.
– MIRACLE a contemptuous term of a mischievous boy …Bk1903 Sc.  
– MISCHIEF a troublesome, mischievous person …1825 Sc.  
– MONKEY a mimic; a person who acts comically; a mischievous person; a rascal, a scamp …1589
– MONKEYRONY † (derogatory) a dandy or fop; esp. a person who behaves mischievously like a monkey …1773 colloq.
– MOONLIGHTER a person who engages in mischief, esp. criminal activity, at night …1832 colloq.
– NABBLER a gossip; a mischief-maker; an argumentative, captious person …Bk1886 Eng. dial. 
– NACKET a pert, forward, smart boy; a trifling little person; an insignificant person; a wicked, mischievous, or impertinent child; a precocious child …1833 Sc.
– NAINTER a scapegrace; a mischievous fellow …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NARCHER a lad, generally one of mischievous disposition …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NAZARD a peevish, wayward, mischievous child …1896 Eng. dial.
– NAZART, NAZZART a peevish, wayward, mischievous child …1896 Eng. dial.
– NAZZET a peevish, wayward, mischievous child …1896 Eng. dial.
– NICKUM, KNICKUM a scamp, a rogue, a mischievous boy …1804 Sc. 
– NIMSHI, NIMSHY a conceited fellow; a foolish fellow; a nincompoop; one who habitually acts in a foolish manner; a mischievous child  …1848 Amer. dial.
– NINETER a scapegrace, a mischievous fellow, a rascal …1884 Eng. dial.
– NIT a small, mischievous person …1898 Sc. 
– NOINTER a mischievous child; a brat …1893 Eng. dial. & Aust. sl.
– PECK’S BAD BOY a mischievous boy …1883 sl., chiefly US
– PERISHER a mischievous child …1935 sl.
– PICKTHANK a mischief-maker or talebearer …1460
– PIZZIE a mischievous child …1873 Sc.
– RAGGIL a rascal, a scoundrel; a worthless vagabond; a careless or mischievous person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-SCAAP a frolicsome, mischievous person …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-SCAMP a frolicsome, mischievous person …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-SCAWP a frolicsome, mischievous person …B1900 Eng. dial.
– REAL LADDIE BOY, A a mischievous, lively boy …1887 Eng. dial.
– RIDGEL a term of abuse applied to men; a sportive, mischievous lad …1703 Eng. dial.
– ROGUE a mischievous person, now esp. a child; frequently used as a playful term of reproof or reproach …L16
– SANCHO an unruly, mischievous child …1862 Amer. dial.
– SANNUP a scamp; a mischievous boy …1939 Amer. dial.
– SCALAWAG, SCALLAWAG, SCALLOWAG, SCALLYWAG a disreputable or very mischievous fellow; a worthless, good-for-nothing, or contemptuous fellow; a good-tempered scamp; a ne’er-do-well; a scapegrace, a blackguard; a rascal; a naughty child …1848
– SCAMPERIL a scampish juvenile; a mischievous child …Bk1876 Eng. dial. 
– SCHNICKLEFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1916 Amer. dial.
– SCUDDER a scoundrel, a rascal, a mischievous person; a rowdy, mean person …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCUTTER a scoundrel, a rascal, a mischievous person; a rowdy, mean person …1934 Amer. dial.
– SKEESICK a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1858 Amer. dial.
– SKEESUCKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1891 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZACKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1875 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZECKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1850 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZICKS, SKEEZIX a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1890 Amer. dial.
– SKITE a small, cute or mischievous person …1911 Amer. dial.
– SMATCHET a small, contemptible person; a mischievous, impudent, pert child; used as a term of  contempt or dislike …c1582 Sc.
– SNICKELTYFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1916 Amer. dial.
– SNICKETYFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1916 Amer. dial.
– SNICKLEFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1905 Amer. dial.
– SNIGGLEFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1905 Amer. dial.
– TAGGELT a mischievous little child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAISTREL a mischievous boy; a rascal; scoundrel …1923 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– TAISTRILRIG a mischievous, wicked person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TARESTRIL a mischievous child …Bk1914 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– TAR(R) a mischievous character; esp. used of a child …1897 Eng. dial.
– TARGER a person of bad or eccentric character; a rough fellow; a mischievous person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TARRAS a troublesome, mischievous lad …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TASSEY, TASSY a mischievous child; a foolish, romping girl; a silly fellow …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TASTRILL a saucy, impudent child; one who is badly behaved; a mischievous character; a cunning rogue, a rascal …Bk1892 Eng. dial.
– TAW a mischievous person …Bk1887 Eng. dial. 
– TAZIE a mischievous child; a foolish, romping girl; a silly fellow …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAZZY a mischievous child; a foolish, romping girl; a silly fellow; a simpleton …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TEAR-RAG a rude, boisterous child; a romp, one always getting into mischief and tearing his clothes … B1900 Eng. dial.
– THREE-QUARTER CLIFT a mischievous fellow …1846 Ireland
– TIKE, TYKE a mischievous, tiresome child or boy; a term of reproach applied half playfully to children …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TILE an audacious thief; a mischievous person, esp. applied to young people …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TORMENT person who causes trouble, a mischievous person …1784
– VARMENT, VARMINT an objectionable or troublesome person; a mischievous child …1773
– VERMIN a term of abuse; also, applied playfully to a mischievous child …1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WAG † 1. a mischievous boy; often used as a mother’s term of endearment to a baby boy; also, a youth, a young man; a fellow …a1553
2. a buffoon; a jester; a habitual joker; a merry droll; anyone ludicrously mischievous …1584
– WAGLING a little wag or mischievous person …1837 nonce word
– WAG-PASTY † a mischievous rogue; a rascal, an urchin; a term of contempt …1622
– WAIT-SCATHE † a nickname for a perpetrator of mischief …1481
– WIDDIEFOO, WIDDIEFU, WIDDYFU one fit to fill a hangman’s noose; a gallows-bird; a scoundrel; a scamp, a rogue, a mischievous person, a romp; a person of small stature and short temper …1721 Sc.
– WIDDIEFOW one fit to fill a hangman’s noose; a gallows-bird; a scoundrel; a scamp, a rogue, a mischievous person, a romp; a person of small stature and short temper …1721 Sc.
– WIRL a puny, ill-developed person; a stunted or deformed person, a dwarf; also used jocularly of a mischievous child, a young scamp …1893 Sc.
– WIRLY-WARLY a puny, ill-developed person; a stunted or deformed person, a dwarf; also used jocularly of a mischievous child, a young scamp …1856 Sc.
– WIRRAL a puny, ill-developed person; a stunted or deformed person, a dwarf; also used jocularly of a mischievous child, a young scamp …1935 Sc.
– WITCH-CAT a mischievous, high-spirited person, esp. a child; a frolicsome girl, a roguish boy …1844 Amer. dial.
– WROW a puny, ill-developed person; a stunted or deformed person, a dwarf; also used jocularly of a mischievous child, a young scamp …1893 Sc.
– WURL a puny, ill-developed person; a stunted or deformed person, a dwarf; also used jocularly of a mischievous child, a young scamp …1898 Sc.
– YAP an impudent, forward child or youth; a mischievous lad …1839 Eng. dial.
– YARD APE an unruly, mischievous, or physically active child; a nickname for such a child …1974 Amer. dial.
– YAUP an impudent, forward child or youth; a mischievous lad …1839 Eng. dial.
– YEP an impudent, forward child or youth; a mischievous lad …1839 Eng. dial.
– YIP an impudent, forward child or youth; a mischievous lad …1839 Eng. dial.
– YOUNG DUMMILL a stupid or mischievous child …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
– YOUNG HESSIAN a troublesome, mischievous child …1914 Amer. dial.
– YOUNG HUSSIAN a troublesome, mischievous child …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– YOUNG IMP a mischievous boy; a young rascal …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
– YOUNG MONKEY a mischievous child …1819 sl.
– YOUNG RASCAL a common name for a mischievous boy …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
mischief, mischievous – verbs
– ACT LIKE SANCHO of a child: to act in an unruly or mischievous way; to misbehave …1869 Amer. dial.
– BESORE † to vex, to annoy, to molest, to cause mischief to …17C
– BE THE DAD OF ALL RING-TAILS to excel in mischief, to be the ringleader …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– CAFFLE to gossip and make mischief …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CUT UP A CAPER to behave in a mischievous or frolicsome manner …1775 US
– CUT UP SHINES to behave in a mischievous or frolicsome manner …1846 US
– DEVIL AROUND to seek mischief; to try to annoy; to lead a loose life …1902 Amer. dial.
– GET AWAY WITH THE BAGGAGE to escape detection in or to avoid the consequences of mischief or wrongdoing  …1873 Amer. sl.
– GIVE OLD HARRY to play the devil, to make mischief; to tease or scold …M17 sl.
– LARK ABOUT to enjoy oneself doing silly or mischievous things …1857
– LARK AROUND to enjoy oneself doing silly or mischievous things …1857
– MAKE WORK to make mischief …Bk1905 Eng, dial. 
– MISCHIEVE † to do a mischief to; to hurt …a1393 obs. exc. Sc.
– MONKEY ABOUT to behave mischievously or aimlessly …1889
– MONKEY AROUND to behave mischievously or aimlessly …1884 Amer. colloq.
– PLAY OLD HARRY WITH to play the devil or the mischief with; to work mischief upon; to ruin …1837
– PLAY THE HANGMENT to injure, to play havoc or the mischief with …B1900 Eng. dial.
– PLAY THE WAG to be mischievous; to play tricks …c1585
– RAMBLE ABOUT to idle about; to get into mischief …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SCAMP to play mischievous tricks …Bk1904 Sc.
 
MISCHIEVOUSLY – adverbs
– LEWDLY † wickedly, evilly, vilely, mischievously …1382
 
MISCONDUCT – nouns
– MALVERSE † a breach of trust, an act of duplicity, grave misconduct …1703 Sc.
– MISCARRIAGE misconduct, misbehaviour …1642 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– MISORDERING † misconduct …1526
– MISORDINANCE † misconduct …c1450
misconduct – verbs
– JACK UP * to call to account for a misdemeanour or misconduct; to take to task, to upbraid, to reprimand  …1896 US colloq.
– MISORDER † to misbehave, misconduct oneself; to be disorderly or ill-behaved …a1450
 
MISCONSTRUE – adjectives
– MISCONSTRUOUS †* apt to misconstrue …1632
misconstrue – verbs
– LOOK BEYOND to misconstrue, to misunderstand …1600
– MISCONSTER to misconstrue …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISCONSTRUCT † to misconstrue; to have a wrong conception of …1660 Sc.  
 
MISCREANT – person
– BAD-JOHN a ruffian; a hooligan or miscreant …1935 Caribbean
– MISCREDENT † a miscreant …Bk1855 Eng. dial.