adj. (common).—1. Loose; obscene. Hence TO DO THE (GO, or BE) NAUGHTY = to play the whore: shop and working girls in large towns sometimes say they work for their living, but DO THE NAUGHTY for their clothes; NAUGHTINESS = lewdness; THE NAUGHTY = the female pudendum; NAUGHTY-PACK (or DICKY-BIRD) = a wanton; NAUGHTY-HOUSE = a brothel; NAUGHTY-MAN = a whoremonger; NAUGHTY-DREAM = a lascivious dream.
1550. C. BANSLEY, A Treatyse, Shewing and Declaring the Pryde and Abuse of Women Now a Dayes [HAZLITT], Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, IV. 231.
| For wanton lasses and galant women, | |
| And other lewde NOUGHTY PACKES. |
1589. The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches, etc. Hauing two lewde Daughters, no better then NAUGHTY PACKS.
1598. R. B[ERNARD], Terence, in English. Dost thou still speake ambiguously to me, thou NAUGHTY PACKE?
1603. SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure, ii. 1. 77. It is a NAUGHTY HOUSE.
1611. MIDDLETON and DEKKER, The Roaring Girle [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, vi., p. 20]. She’s a varlet—a NAUGHTY PACK.
1638. ROWLEY, A Shoomaker a Gentleman, G. 4. Got a wench with childe, thou NAUGHTY PACKE thou hast undone thy selfe for ever.
1638. NABBES, Covent Garden, iii., 1. Susan. If ever I lie under any of them for the greene sickness. Dorot. Fie upon thee. Susan. Why, I doe not meane NAUGHTINES.
1673. WYCHERLEY, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, i., 1. Hipp. I; but to be delighted when we wake with a NAUGHTY DREAM, is a sin, Aunt; and I am so very scrupulous, that I would as soon consent to a NAUGHTY MAN as to a NAUGHTY DREAM.
1675. CROWNE, The Country Wit, i., 1. Most severely censuring all that are young and handsome TO BE NAUGHTY.
1708–10. SWIFT, Polite Conversation, i. Miss. She’s no better than she should be. Lady Smart. Well … the world is very censorious: I never heard that she was a NAUGHTY-PACK.
1772. E. COLES, English-Latin Dictionary, s.v.
1869. HALL [LYNDSAY, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (E.E.T.S.), 498, Note]. The wealth of the prelates keeps our daughters unwedded. And some of them go NAUGHTY.
1891. N. GOULD, The Double Event, p. 118. Lady Mayfield’s history was pretty well-known, and the NAUGHTINESS surrounding her past life added a piquant flavour of excitement to the curiosity manifested on the occasion.
1896. COTSFORD DICK, The Ways of the World: Vers de Sociéte, 12, ‘An Alphabet for Adults.’
| J. is the Juvenile maiden of forty, | |
| Who hopes it’s not wrong, but she longs to be NAUGHTY. | |
| Ibid., 18, ‘The Art of Smartness.’ | |
| French songs, that are tant soit peu NAUGHTY. |
1898. LE QUEUX, Scribes and Pharisees, iv. If a poet isn’t NAUGHTY now-a-days, nobody reads him.
2. (old).—Flash.
c. 1864. VANCE, The Chickaleary Cove, ii.
| Now kool my downy kicksies—the style for me, | |
| Built on a plan werry NAUGHTY. |
