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puckish
puckish /ˈpʌkɪʃ/ adjective [usually before noun] literary
 Date: 1800-1900
 Origin: Puck evil spirit in old English stories
showing that you are amused by other people, and like to make jokes about them:
    a puckish grin
—puckishly adverb