Adjective
(
en adjective)
mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
* {{quote-book
, year=1897
, author=H. G. Wells
, title=A Story of the Stone Age
, chapter=1
citation
, passage=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.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1942
, author=Virginia Woolf
, title=The Death of the Moth, and other essays
, chapter=20
citation
, passage=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.}}
