impish

英語

詞源

imp +‎ -ish

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɪmpɪʃ/

形容詞

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

1. 頑皮的，調皮搗蛋的
   • 1897, H. G. Wells, 章號 1, 出自 A Story of the Stone Age‎^[1]，於9 March 2012歸檔自原頁面:

     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, 出自 The Death of the Moth, and other essays‎^[2]，於24 February 2011歸檔自原頁面:

     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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近義詞

• implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish