prankishness

Yellow notes that making an audience happy is tough, and the main idea in “Mad Tiger” is that the group’s prankishness masks complex, longstanding friendships.

It seemed to include elements of both juvenile prankishness and ethnic hostility, said one neighbor, Rachel Hayden.

Underlying their elegant visual presentation is a satirical prankishness reminiscent of the robotic Walking City designed by Archigram in the 1960s.

He was amiability itself, and showed genuine distress when Dennis took occasion to scold him for some piece of inconvenient prankishness.

"Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written.