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impish, a.|ˈɪmpɪʃ|
[f. imp n. + -ish.]
Having the characteristics of an imp; pertaining to or characteristic of a little devil or mischievous urchin.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 334 The news of the victory was..carried to Rome by Castor and Pollux..or as others say, by the Impish divels themselves. 1834Beckford Italy II. 8 Stimulated by impish children. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 219 Teasing and worrying with impish laughter half suppressed. 1884Lady Verney in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 550 Spiteful, impish tricks.
Hence ˈimpishly adv., ˈimpishness.
1864Webster, Impishly. 1872Lytton Parisians ix. ii, ‘I shall have the wreath yet’, cried [she] impishly. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 303 When scheming any plot of particular neatness, which had less emotion than impishness in it. 1897W. C. Hazlitt Four Generat. Lit. Fam. I. iii. iii. 274 A half-witted fellow..whom the boys..impishly tormented. |