impish
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɪmpɪʃ/
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Adjective
[edit]impish (comparative more impish, superlative most impish)
- Mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
- 1897, H. G. Wells, chapter 1, in A Story of the Stone Age[1], archived from the original on 9 March 2012:
- Wild-eyed youngsters they were, with matted hair and little broad-nosed impish faces, covered (as some children are covered even nowadays) with a delicate down of hair.
- 1942, Virginia Woolf, chapter 20, in The Death of the Moth, and other essays[2], archived from the original on 24 February 2011:
- 2007, Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, page 231:
- "That's true, I did," Kate admitted, with an impish grin. "How did it look?"
- 2023 October 13, Brian Logan, “‘We’re all learning’: why Netflix needs Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda”, in The Guardian[3]:
- As per the old Jewish joke “ask two Jews, get three opinions”, there’s room on this seven-strong bill (plus [Hannah] Gadsby) for at least that many different perspectives on gender – including some impish scepticism from Canadian comic DeAnne Smith, who complains about “getting they/them’d against my will since 2005”.
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