impish

英语

词源

imp +‎ -ish

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈɪmpɪʃ/

形容词

impish (比较级 more impish，最高级 most impish)

1. 顽皮的，调皮捣蛋的
   • 1897，H. G. Wells，章号 1, in A Story of the Stone Age‎^[1]，存档自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，章号 20, in The Death of the Moth, and other essays‎^[2]，存档自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