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noun ɪmpɪmp 1A small, mischievous devil or sprite. Example sentencesExamples - When she smiled and curtsied, she reminded me of a sprite-ish imp.
- To her religious enemies, she was an imp of the Devil, if not probably the Devil himself incarnate.
- And still it sat there upon its inky throne surrounded by inky superstition, leering over him with an evil smirk and waiting - waiting with all the patience of an imp or demon.
- But then I began to feel rather like a character in one of those moralistic cartoons - a man who has a mischievous imp on one shoulder and a self-righteous angel on the other.
- Twenty years on, our civilised world is dismantled by subtler and more bewildering inner forces, by our own natures, by what Poe called ‘the imp of the perverse’.
- On Thursday night, we will all answer the door to find assorted little devils, imps and ghosts thrusting forward a bag half filled with processed sugar to the cry of ‘Trick or treat’.
- Immediately the imp within me starts whispering, ‘Hey, you could do anything you want.’
- In the largest of the ancient cells, the imps waited for him, still in their demon forms, held there where he had bound them.
- Unleash as many of your demon imps as you may, but you cannot stop me, and I will continue to follow my own dreams.
- The introspection imp usually sits on my shoulder every New Year, but it just seems to be a lot more ‘weighty’ this time.
- The imp said, ‘Oh, that is not wonderful,’ and crept into the hole to show Virgil how it was done, whereupon Virgil closed up the hole and kept the imp there.
- His father had been a cider-maker, and a noted cider drinker, so he was an authority on imps - and fairies, and all sorts of things that lesser folk never saw.
- In Dungeon Keeper you managed a host of demons, imps, succubi, etc. as you expanded your dungeon's real estate.
- I looked at the tracks and saw that little goblins, imps, fairies, and sprites had been in my house.
- Human beings are often exaggerated giants or imps - one hilarious picture shows a short old man with a giant sabre climbing stairs - and key emotional turning points are set in an atmosphere of brightly coloured mists.
- He grinned like an imp, apologised and declared he would instead talk about the policies he would not be pursuing.
- He did not know what trouble this could bring, for people spoke of elves and imps and brownies living up in the hills.
- This has always been true, as I'm sure you've learned in your classes and in your lives: There have always been these forces, these imps and demons, this terror.
- The bad news is I skipped the cool down and the imps of sloth have decided to punish my errant behaviour with a pinched nerve, that restricts the movement of my head.
- You say, ‘I've never seen any imps, sprites or goblins in this whole neighborhood!’
Synonyms demon, little devil, devil, fiend hobgoblin, goblin, elf, sprite, puck archaic bugbear rare cacodemon - 1.1 A mischievous child.
Example sentencesExamples - Hundreds of skinny, barefooted, dust-covered imps beg outsiders for money, pens and sweets - the adults are a little more reticent.
- The image of a child was not of innocence but of an imp, a little devil, likely to commit sin unless corrected.
- There are two sides to her - the hard-nosed competitor you see on television and the mischievous imp that her friends know.
- Lucy was the youngest of five daughters and was described by her family as a ‘mischievous little imp with a cheeky smile’.
- The latter turned into mischief night: ‘a night supposed by the imps of mischief (rough youths) to be, under some old law or tradition, theirs to do as they wish with’.
- When I take her child-like hand in my meaty paw, my gaze is met with the liquid black eyes of Amélie, the mischievous imp from the movie of the same title.
- Disturbed by his superior's methods, Mathieu sees potential in the imps and forms a school choir.
- Suddenly gamers were no longer defined as basement-dwelling, anti-social imps.
- One day, she is asked to train a new girl, a childish imp.
- The director steered clear of portraying him as a cheeky imp and wisely made him a nameless creep.
- This girl is something of a mischievous imp who flat out refuses to toe the line!
Synonyms rascal, scamp, monkey, fiend, demon, devil, mischief-maker, troublemaker, prankster, rogue, wretch, brat, urchin, whippersnapper, tearaway minx, chit informal monster, horror, mischief, holy terror British informal perisher Irish informal spalpeen Northern English informal tyke, scally North American informal hellion, varmint archaic scapegrace, jackanapes, rapscallion, rip
verb ɪmpɪmp [with object]Repair a damaged feather in (the wing or tail of a trained hawk) by attaching part of a new feather.
Origin Old English impa, impe 'young shoot, scion', impian 'to graft', based on Greek emphuein 'to implant'. In late Middle English, the noun denoted a descendant, especially of a noble family, and later a child of the devil or a person regarded as such; hence a ‘little devil’ or mischievous child (early 17th century). Plants were the original imps. The word goes back to Greek phuein ‘to plant’. The Old English sense ‘a young shoot of a plant’ became ‘a descendant, especially of a noble family’ in the late Middle Ages, and from there developed into ‘a child of the devil’. Mischievous children began to be called imps in the mid 17th century. The Hillman company gave the name Imp to its new small car in 1963—it never matched the success of its rival, the Mini.
Rhymes blimp, chimp, crimp, gimp, limp, pimp, primp, scrimp, shrimp, simp, skimp, wimp abbreviationɪmpɪmp 2Bridge
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nounɪmpimp 1A small, mischievous devil or sprite. Example sentencesExamples - He did not know what trouble this could bring, for people spoke of elves and imps and brownies living up in the hills.
- The introspection imp usually sits on my shoulder every New Year, but it just seems to be a lot more ‘weighty’ this time.
- His father had been a cider-maker, and a noted cider drinker, so he was an authority on imps - and fairies, and all sorts of things that lesser folk never saw.
- In the largest of the ancient cells, the imps waited for him, still in their demon forms, held there where he had bound them.
- Twenty years on, our civilised world is dismantled by subtler and more bewildering inner forces, by our own natures, by what Poe called ‘the imp of the perverse’.
- I looked at the tracks and saw that little goblins, imps, fairies, and sprites had been in my house.
- But then I began to feel rather like a character in one of those moralistic cartoons - a man who has a mischievous imp on one shoulder and a self-righteous angel on the other.
- The imp said, ‘Oh, that is not wonderful,’ and crept into the hole to show Virgil how it was done, whereupon Virgil closed up the hole and kept the imp there.
- In Dungeon Keeper you managed a host of demons, imps, succubi, etc. as you expanded your dungeon's real estate.
- When she smiled and curtsied, she reminded me of a sprite-ish imp.
- To her religious enemies, she was an imp of the Devil, if not probably the Devil himself incarnate.
- And still it sat there upon its inky throne surrounded by inky superstition, leering over him with an evil smirk and waiting - waiting with all the patience of an imp or demon.
- The bad news is I skipped the cool down and the imps of sloth have decided to punish my errant behaviour with a pinched nerve, that restricts the movement of my head.
- Unleash as many of your demon imps as you may, but you cannot stop me, and I will continue to follow my own dreams.
- On Thursday night, we will all answer the door to find assorted little devils, imps and ghosts thrusting forward a bag half filled with processed sugar to the cry of ‘Trick or treat’.
- Human beings are often exaggerated giants or imps - one hilarious picture shows a short old man with a giant sabre climbing stairs - and key emotional turning points are set in an atmosphere of brightly coloured mists.
- Immediately the imp within me starts whispering, ‘Hey, you could do anything you want.’
- This has always been true, as I'm sure you've learned in your classes and in your lives: There have always been these forces, these imps and demons, this terror.
- He grinned like an imp, apologised and declared he would instead talk about the policies he would not be pursuing.
- You say, ‘I've never seen any imps, sprites or goblins in this whole neighborhood!’
Synonyms demon, little devil, devil, fiend - 1.1 A mischievous child.
Example sentencesExamples - This girl is something of a mischievous imp who flat out refuses to toe the line!
- The image of a child was not of innocence but of an imp, a little devil, likely to commit sin unless corrected.
- Suddenly gamers were no longer defined as basement-dwelling, anti-social imps.
- Hundreds of skinny, barefooted, dust-covered imps beg outsiders for money, pens and sweets - the adults are a little more reticent.
- Lucy was the youngest of five daughters and was described by her family as a ‘mischievous little imp with a cheeky smile’.
- Disturbed by his superior's methods, Mathieu sees potential in the imps and forms a school choir.
- The latter turned into mischief night: ‘a night supposed by the imps of mischief (rough youths) to be, under some old law or tradition, theirs to do as they wish with’.
- One day, she is asked to train a new girl, a childish imp.
- There are two sides to her - the hard-nosed competitor you see on television and the mischievous imp that her friends know.
- The director steered clear of portraying him as a cheeky imp and wisely made him a nameless creep.
- When I take her child-like hand in my meaty paw, my gaze is met with the liquid black eyes of Amélie, the mischievous imp from the movie of the same title.
Synonyms rascal, scamp, monkey, fiend, demon, devil, mischief-maker, troublemaker, prankster, rogue, wretch, brat, urchin, whippersnapper, tearaway
verbɪmpimp [with object]Repair a damaged feather in (the wing or tail of a trained hawk) by attaching part of a new feather.
Origin Old English impa, impe ‘young shoot, scion’, impian ‘to graft’, based on Greek emphuein ‘to implant’. In late Middle English, the noun denoted a descendant, especially of a noble family, and later a child of the devil or a person regarded as such; hence a ‘little devil’ or mischievous child (early 17th century). abbreviationɪmpimp Bridge International Match Point.
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