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Does the word "naughty" have a positive sense?
Many Chinese students take the word "naughty" as a positive word, when they want to say a playful and lovely boy they would often say " This is a naughty boy". Does the word "naughty" have a positive sense? Thank you!
1 Kas 2014 14:59
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The word "naughty" can have a subjectively positive meaning, especially when used playfully in relation to sex. Example: A man smiles and boasts to his friends, "My girlfriend and I went to dinner and a movie last night, and then we went to her apartment and got naughty." [Variant: "... apartment and did some naughty things."] "Got naughty" or "did some naughty things" would commonly be understood to mean that they engaged in sexual behavior, and the man who said it used the word "naughty" in what he considered a very positive sense.
1 Kasım 2014
2
I wouldn't say it's exactly positive in that way, but it's not particularly negative. It can be said affectionately. Interestingly, when I taught at a senior school in England, the kids were using 'naughty' as skang to mean 'physically attractive'.
1 Kasım 2014
2
'Naughty' is anything that's enjoyable, but that you shouldn't be doing.
For example 'I'm on a diet, but I was really naughty last night. I had a whole bowl of chocolate chip ice-cream'.
Cake is naughty. Gossiping about people is naughty.
Most things that are fun can be 'naughty'. The harder these things are to resist, the naughtier they are.
1 Kasım 2014
1
No, not really, and I would be VERY careful about this because of Neil's comments above.
1 Kasım 2014
1
Not really. We'd sooner use words like "saucy" or "cheeky".
1 Kasım 2014
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