Definizione monolingua

impish

impish (comparative more impish, superlative most impish)

1. mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
   • 1897, H. G. Wells, chapter 1, A Story of the Stone Age^[1]:

     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.

   • 1942, Virginia Woolf, chapter 20, The Death of the Moth, and other essays^[2]:

     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.

Definizione dizionario impish

birichino

malizioso

sveglio

Altri significati:

mischievous

mischievous; of or befitting an imp.