WordWeight : Weighing the Words

Pronunciation : Naugh"ty
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : 1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.] [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman.

2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.] The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer. xxiv. 2.

3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic] So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.

Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.

[Compar. Naughtier; superl. Naughtiest.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913