Reverse Dictionary: PRANK

ADJECTIVES
1589 ► done or made in a spirit of waggery or mischievous fun; prankish → WAGGISH 
1902 ► amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful → ANTIC → Amer. dial.
1917 ► amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful → ANTIC AS A JAYBIRD → Amer. dial.
1960 ► given to playing pranks; fooling around → GOOGY-GOOGY → sl.

NOUNS
1300 ► a trick, a prank; often, a device to deceive, a piece of trickery → GAUD → GAWD → obs.
1523 ► pranks or tricks → VAGES → VAGUES → obs.
1600 ► a vagary, a prank; a whim, an eccentricity → FEGARY → Eng. dial. & colloq. rare
1605 ► ‘light-heeled’ pranks → LEGERDEHEEL → obs.
1629 ► a trick, a prank; a stratagem, an artifice → REAK → Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
1665 ► a sudden sportive or fantastic motion; a prank, trick, caper → CAPRICCIO 
1698 ► a trick, a prank, a practical joke → PAVIE → Sc.
1782 ► a joke, a prank, a game; a playful and lively movement or activity; a frolic → RIG → Eng. dial.
1786 ► a mischievous escapade; a trick, a prank; a practical joke; a frolic → PLISKY → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1805 ► tricks, pranks → LAITS → Sc.
1819 ► a joke, a trick, a prank; rough play → GAMMOCK → Eng. dial.
1821 ► a prank, freak, frolic → GAMBADE 
1827 ► a childish action or prank; childish behaviour → ENFANTILLAGE 
1835 ► a prank, a caper; an outburst; a display of emotion, energy, etc. → RUSTY → US colloq.
1836 ► a caper, a prank, a trick → SHINE → Amer. dial.
1854 ► a trick or hoax; a prank, a jest, a joke → GUY → Amer. sl.
M19  ► pranks, games, jollification → TANTREMS → sl.
1855 ► mischief; prankishness → SHENANIGANS → Amer. colloq.
1858 ► a joke, a prank, a trick, a frolic → RIG → Amer. dial.
1864 ► a prank, frolic, a gambol, a lark; a playful trick, a practical joke; a piece of fun or mischief → MARLOCK → Eng. dial.
1864 ► pranks, tricks, practical jokes → MAXIMS → Eng. dial.
1864 ► a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke; a noisy disturbance, an uproar, a row → MAYLOCK → Eng. dial.
1864 ► a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke → MORLOCK → Eng. dial.
1866 ► madness, folly, frantic rage, tantrums; boisterous fun, wild pranks, hilarity → MADDERAM → MADDERDOM → Sc.
1873 ► frolicking, whims, tricks, pranks → GAMMETTING → Eng. dial.
1877 ► a wild prank → SCALEBRICK → Eng. dial.
1878 ► a prank, a trick; a practical joke → MANK → Eng. dial.
1894 ► a prank, a frolic, a ‘lark’, a piece of fun, a caper, a piece of boyish mischief → PANT → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1898 ► a prank, a whim, a fit of peevishness → CANKUM → KANCUM → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
L19  ► a deceptive story or scheme; a caper; a prank; a trick; horseplay → RANNYGAZOO → Amer. sl.
E20  ► a prank, a trick → BOO-BOO → sl., orig. US
1900 ► a caper, a prank, a trick → DINGDO → Amer. dial.
1900 ► a mad prank → GALLIER → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► a frolic, a foolish prank → GAND → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 ► a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam → RANIKABOO → RANNIKABOO  → REINIKABOO → RENICKY-BOO → Amer. dial.
1902 ► odd pranks, vagaries → JACKDAW TRICKS → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► pranks, antics → MANTICKS → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► confusion, tumult, larking, pranks → ORDER → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► a prank, freak; a caper → QUILLY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1907 ► a nonsensical prank; blustering talk; loud complaint → GANDIEGOW → Sc.
1914 ► capers, pranks, tricks → KEDIDOES → Amer. dial.
1916 ► a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam → RANICKY → RENICKY → Amer. dial.
1945 ► a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam → RANI-CUM-BOOGERIE → Amer. dial.
1950 ► a joke or prank → PRANG → sl.
1975 ► a shenanigan, a prank → FERLICUE → Amer. dial.
1980 ► a rowdy boys’ prank of surrounding a girl in a swimming pool and rolling the water while chanting rap lyrics; it has often led to sexual violence against the trapped girl → WHIRLPOOL → teen sl.
1990 ► a joke, a prank → HUMMER → US sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1784 ► a person who plays pranks, or one who likes to joke around; a comedian → FUNSTER → colloq.
1790 ► one who plays pranks; a fool → MARLOCK → Eng. dial.
1896 ► an ill-mannered, ill-behaved, or mischievous boy; one given to playing pranks → TAISTREL → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1942 ► a prankish old man → FOXY GRANDPA → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1975 ► an amusing sort of chap; a joker; a prankster; an outrageous person → RIG → Amer. dial.

VERBS
1611 ► to play the ape; to use apish or foolish tricks or knavish pranks → BABOONIZE IT → obs.
1764 ► to play a prank or trick → RUN A RIG → obs.
1791 ► to cheat, to overreach; to elude by stratagem; to play a trick or prank → QUIRK → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1793 ► to play a prank or trick on → RUN ONE’S RIG UPON
1840 ► to act in a devious manner; to play a trick or prank → CUT UP A CURLICUE → Amer. dial.
1854 ► to frolic, to romp, to lark about, to play pranks chiefly → GAMMOCK → Eng. dial.
1864 ► to prank, to romp; to play tricks; to pretend to work, to gossip → MANK → Eng. dial.