He was continually getting into scrapes: his mother was incessantly harassed with complaints of some waggish pranks which he had played off; bills were sent in for windows that he had broken; in a word, he had not reached his fourteenth year before he was pronounced, by all the neighbourhood, to be a "wicked dog, the wickedest dog in the street!"
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
He seemed quite unknown to me, and appeared to be flushed with wine, and in a waggish humour, so that I was really frightened.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
We shall hear of Eugene Field in regions of literature far above the aim and scope of these witty and waggish sketches.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson