mischieving

English

Etymology

From mischieve +‎ -ing.

Noun

mischieving (uncountable)

1. (now Scotland) The causing of damage or terror; rampaging. [from 15th c.]
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:

     And it ate up sheep and men and women and was a fair terror, and the King had his heralds cry a reward to whatever knight would ride and end the mischieving of the beast.