devilment
Meanings
noun
- Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
- A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
- Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
- Something cleverly constructed.
- A dish which is devilled (“made piquant or spicy”); a devil; also, the elements of the dish which make it spicy, or the piquancy or spiciness of the dish.
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Etymology
From devil + -ment (suffix forming nouns indicating the actions or results of what is denoted by the words it is attached to).
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