"puckish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007 April 2, John Cassidy, “The Next Crusade”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "Wolfowitz spoke softly to Yasa, who evidently had no idea who he was but responded with a puckish smile.",
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          "ref": "2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "“Chandler Bing,” wrote Matthew Perry in his puckish, self-mocking memoir, “changed the way that America spoke”.",
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        "Mischievous; excessively playful."
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          "sense": "mischievous",
          "word": "impish"
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          "sense": "mischievous",
          "word": "playful"
        }
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        "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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        "Mischievous; excessively playful."
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