naughties

noun

SayNAW-teezUS/ˈnɔtiz/UK/ˈnɔːtiz/

2 meanings of naughties

1
nounUKplural
Alternative form of noughties.
Fashion magazines keep bringing back styles from the naughties.
The naughties saw the rapid rise of social media and online video.
Note
A spelling that borrows the look of naughty for the decade name noughties: the years 2000 to 2009, or 1900 to 1909. Written this way, it shares its form with the plural meaning mischievous ones, so context has to make clear which is meant. Like noughties, it is a UK word, always plural, and sometimes capitalized: the Naughties.
2
nouncolloquialcountableplural
People or things that are mischievous or mildly badly behaved.
The babysitter rounded up the little naughties before dinner could go cold.
He chuckled at the naughties someone had scribbled in the margins of the library book.
Similarrascals, scamps, imps

Use it in a sentence

Write your own sentence with naughties, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.

Origin

Formed from "naughty" with the suffix "-s".