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imp
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural imps
plural imps
Learner's definition of IMP
[count]
1
: a small creature that plays harmful tricks in children's stories小恶魔；小魔鬼
2
: a child who causes trouble in a playful way : a mischievous child顽童；小淘气 — see also impish
- a lovable imp 可爱的小淘气
imped; imping; imps
Example Sentences
Noun scooped up the little imp and took him to bed a story about a crumbling mansion infested with a brood of imps
Recent Examples on the Web
Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 27 May 2022 In South African mythology, the tokoloshe is a malicious imp that preys on its victims at night. Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021 The show's sixth and final season pits Supergirl and her Super Friends against Nyxly (Peta Sergeant), a vengeful Fifth Dimensional imp who is desperately searching for seven magical totems that, when combined, will give her ultimate power. EW.com, 28 Oct. 2021 The stories about its little, red-haired imp and his pranks still retain cult status today. John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021 Presiding above it all is Pesce himself, an imp in Issey Miyake, delighting in his creations, wonky and Wonka. Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021 Hell on Earth is imminent, and Coy Blackler’s only real ally is Harper, a fellow test pilot/guinea pig whose symbiotic relationship with a cherubim-ish imp also is highly unstable. al, 23 July 2021 In a sense, Keough gets to play the film’s presiding artist, an imp of the perverse who sets things in motion just to see what might happen. Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 29 June 2021 Are Descartes’ almost perfect illusionist, Laplace’s nearly omniscient intelligence and Maxwell’s entropy-resistant imp really as tangible as a microchip or a shock wave? Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020 Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017 See More
Noun
Together, the five –- plus an extra character, a pet imp named Beans – completed the Dire Dogs. Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 27 May 2022 In South African mythology, the tokoloshe is a malicious imp that preys on its victims at night. Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021 The show's sixth and final season pits Supergirl and her Super Friends against Nyxly (Peta Sergeant), a vengeful Fifth Dimensional imp who is desperately searching for seven magical totems that, when combined, will give her ultimate power. EW.com, 28 Oct. 2021 The stories about its little, red-haired imp and his pranks still retain cult status today. John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021 Presiding above it all is Pesce himself, an imp in Issey Miyake, delighting in his creations, wonky and Wonka. Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021 Hell on Earth is imminent, and Coy Blackler’s only real ally is Harper, a fellow test pilot/guinea pig whose symbiotic relationship with a cherubim-ish imp also is highly unstable. al, 23 July 2021 In a sense, Keough gets to play the film’s presiding artist, an imp of the perverse who sets things in motion just to see what might happen. Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 29 June 2021 Are Descartes’ almost perfect illusionist, Laplace’s nearly omniscient intelligence and Maxwell’s entropy-resistant imp really as tangible as a microchip or a shock wave? Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020 Verb
Imping, her father had called this sort of frenzied picking. Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English impe, from Old English impa, from impian to imp
Verb
Middle English, from Old English impian to graft, from Vulgar Latin *imputare, from Late Latin impotus grafted shoot, from Greek emphytos implanted, from emphyein to implant, from em- en- entry 2 + phyein to bring forth — more at be
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2
Verb
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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