naughty

1. superl. Having little or nothing. Source: opted

2. superl. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. Source: opted

3. superl. hence, corrupt; wicked. Source: opted

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

5. adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety Source: wordnet

6. adj. badly behaved Source: wordnet

7. 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. Source: webster

8. Orig., a method of therapeutic treatment administered, esp. forchronic diseases of the curculatory system, at Bad Nauheim, Germany,by G. Schott, consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters ofthat place, which are charged with carbonic acid, and the use of agraduated course of rest, physical exercises, massage, etc.; hence,any similar treatment using waters artificially charged with theessential ingredients of the natural mineral waters of Bad Nauheim.Hence, Nauheim bath, etc. Source: adambom

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