Thread: нашкодшивий

Что значит это слово?

The word is нашкодивший
It means the one who made a little mischief, a mischivous person.
This word can be applied to the child which stole the sweets from the buffet, or a dog which dug the crumbling cracker under your pillow.
Usually this person knows what he done and has fun of it. Even if he knows he can be punished.

There is a word шкода which means such a person. It is rarely used for the adults, or if it is then in humorous and ironical way.

If you ever read the O.Henry's The Ransom of Red Chief then you can imagine what is шкода.

From the verb шкодить, нашкодить.

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