espieglerie

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noun

Impish or playful behaviour; mischief.

OriginFrench espièglerie →
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Meanings

nounespieglerie (countable and uncountable, plural espiegleries)

plural espiegleries

  1. countableuncountableImpish or playful behaviour; mischief.
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    I yield to no one in my appreciation of her espieglerie, but I'm one of the rabbits and always have been while she is about as pronounced a dasher as ever dashed. What I like is the quiet life, and Roberta Wickham wouldn't recognize the quiet life if you brought it to her on a plate with watercress round it. She's all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.

    1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII

Origin

  1. Frenchespièglerie
  2. Englishespieglerie

Borrowed from French espièglerie, see espiègle.

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APA

espieglerie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/espieglerie

MLA

“espieglerie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/espieglerie. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “espieglerie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/espieglerie.

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