impish

英语

词源

imp +‎ -ish

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɪmpɪʃ/

形容词

impish (比較級 more impish，最高級 most impish)

1. 顽皮的，调皮捣蛋的
   • 1897，H. G. Wells，章號 1，A Story of the Stone Age‎^[1]，存檔自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.

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   • 1942，Virginia Woolf，章號 20，The Death of the Moth, and other essays‎^[2]，存檔自the original on 24 February 2011：

     But the antics of Mr. Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.

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近义词

• implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish