(1) The word is sometimes translated as “mascot”, but yuru-kyara are significantly different from mascots in the west, such as those associated with professional sports teams, which tend to be benign, prankish one-dimensional court jesters that operate in the narrow realm of the sidelines during game time.
Puckish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over time, the name has lost its punny puckishness much as the movement has steadily shifted from a proudly anacharical – even populist – response and rebellion within the GOP to a smoothly functioning alternative to it.
(2) As a novelist, she was preoccupied by the intersection between power and personality, which she represented, in what became trademark fashion, in a variety of puckish settings.
(3) Asked how Russia's oligarchs are bearing up, Lebedev is almost puckishly cheerful.
(4) Lars Von Trier is known for being unpredictable, quixotic, puckish and deliberately provocative.
(5) Here, as he rolls a joint to the disapproval of his married friend's square wife, he has Peter's insolence and puckishness.
(6) His face was puckish but kind, and flickered between reflection and mischief.
(7) Joe is a prototypical working class American male – stout, thick, jovial, moralistic, but with a puckish curiosity about how the other half lives.
(8) Jack is lanky, friendly and restless; Jade shorter, puckish, with a ponytail.
(9) I’ve hit a wall here.” The Republican presidential primary lost Lindsey Graham, its only voice of reason | Lucia Graves Read more Despite an accomplished résumé and a puckish sense of humor , Graham was never able to gain any traction in the Republican primary.
(10) Photograph: Karen Robinson Puckish Mathieu Amalric caught the pundits by surprise when he scooped the Cannes director prize for his 2010 burlesque caper On Tour.
(11) In recent years, she has dominated Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre: as the shape-shifting fairy in Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker ; as Strindberg’s fallen aristocrat Miss Julie ; as self-deluding alcoholic Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ; and as a puckish but ferocious Hamlet , all directed by Sarah Frankcom .
(12) There are fewer flashes of the puckish humour these days and he is more cautious in his pronouncements, but he is nonetheless saying more than the government would like, and recent actions by his supporters speak still louder.
(13) The warmth of public affection for "the arch" was evident on Thursday amid the otherwise austere grandeur of the 19th-century St George's Cathedral , once a bastion of resistance to apartheid where the puckish Tutu rallied hearts and minds.
(14) From Warhol 's stars to the early incarnations of David Bowie , from the puckish sexual innocence of Marc Bolan to the studied posing of photographer Nan Goldin 's transvestite friends, from Iggy Pop 's self-destructiveness to Alice Cooper 's cultivation of a dangerous persona, the sense that the self is something to be constantly reinvented and performed remains a kind of lesson, however trite and contrived some of those performances might now appear.
(15) He seems more relaxed and puckish now, weaving though the streets of his adopted home town.
(16) Having resigned a couple of times before, I know how puckish lobby hacks might choose to misconstrue the departure.