imp·ish

(ĭm′pĭsh)

adj.

Of or befitting an imp; mischievous.

imp′ish·ly adv.

imp′ish·ness n.

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impish

(ˈɪmpɪʃ)

adj

of or resembling an imp; mischievous

ˈimpishly adv

ˈimpishness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

imp•ish

(ˈɪm pɪʃ)

adj.

of, pertaining to, or befitting an imp; mischievous.

[1645–55]

imp′ish•ly, adv.

imp′ish•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

impish - naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"

implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, arch, wicked

playful - full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school"

impish

adjective mischievous, devilish, roguish, rascally, elfin, puckish, waggish, sportive, prankish He is known for his impish sense of humour.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

impish

adjective

Full of high-spirited fun:

frisky, frolicsome, mischievous, playful, sportive, waggish.

Translations

عِفْريتي، خبيث

rozpustilý

gavtyveagtig

schelmisch

espiègle

huncut

hrekkjóttur; glettinn

birichino

ondskapsfull skjelmsk skøyeraktig

afacancin gibiyaramaz

小鬼的顽童似的

impish

[ˈɪmpɪʃ] ADJ [expression, smile] → pícaro, travieso

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

impish

[ˈɪmpɪʃ] adj → espiègle

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

impish

adj remark → schelmisch; smile, look also → verschmitzt; child also → lausbübisch

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

impish

[ˈɪmpɪʃ] adj → malizioso/a, birichino/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

imp

(imp) noun

1. a small devil or wicked spirit.

2. a mischievous child. Her son is a little imp.

ˈimpish adjective

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These remarks were greeted with shouts of laughter by the impish creatures and one seized the Scarecrow's arm and was astonished to find the straw man whirl around so easily.

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But alas, the final week of that pleasant vacation was spoiled for Anne, by one of those impish happenings which are like a dream turned upside down.

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After supper, urged perhaps by the impish humour which was the despair of his friends in Cambridge, Mass., he often asked Philip and Hayward to come in for a chat.

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"You ain't never had a real licking before," he muttered as Bob, thus rudely jerked out of the circle of his own impish mental processes, shot ahead.

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The creature in the chair checked his furious wheels, and looked back over his shoulder with an impish curiosity horrible to see.

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He was burning up with fever, and his eyes were running sores; in the daytime he was a thing uncanny and impish to behold, a plaster of pimples and sweat, a great purple lump of misery.

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The garland would topple over in a most impish way at every breath, although the arrows went through it.

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Unfortunately, one young Italian, Peter, an impish soul, seeing me sitting solitary, stirred by a whim of the moment, half-filled a tumbler with wine and passed it to me.

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'And she has has a right to do as she likes, I hope, Quilp,' said the old lady trembling, partly with anger and partly with a secret fear of her impish son-in-law.

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The little schoolboy, aided by the impish figure of the negro dancer, had wrought an irreparable ruin.

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The air was stifling; the stone bench glittered in the sunlight; the meadow exhaled to heaven those impish vapors which dance and dart above the herbage like silvery dust; but Genevieve seemed not to feel this all-consuming heat.

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Cadwallader seemed like a mocking travesty wrought in the dark by an impish finger.

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