noun [U]
1 bad behaviour (especially of children) that is annoying but does not cause any serious damage or harm:
Those children are always getting into mischief. * I try to keep out of mischief. * It's very quiet upstairs; they must be up to some mischief!
2 the wish or tendency to behave or play in a way that causes trouble:
Her eyes were full of mischief.
3 (formal) harm or injury that is done to sb or to their reputation:
The incident caused a great deal of political mischief.
IDIOMS
do yourself a mischief (BrE, informal) to hurt yourself physically:
Watch how you use those scissors-you could do yourself a mischief!
make mischief to do or say sth deliberately to upset other people, or cause trouble between them
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for mischief is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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