Impish vs Rash - What's the difference?
impish | rash |
mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
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Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty.
So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
(obsolete) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Fast-acting.
* Shakespeare
(symptom) An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin.
A surge in problems; a spate, string or trend
(obsolete) To prepare with haste.
An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
To pull off or pluck violently.
To slash; to hack; to slice.
* Spenser
As an adjective impish
is mischievous; of or befitting an imp.As a proper noun rash is
.impish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}
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.}}
Synonyms
* (naughtily or annoyingly playful): implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckishrash
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rash, .Adjective
(er)- rash words spoken in the heat of debate
- I scarce have leisure to salute you, / My matter is so rash .
- Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * brash * heady * hotheaded * impulsive * inconsiderate * precipitateDerived terms
* rashnessNoun
(rashes)- There has been a rash of vandalism lately.
Synonyms
(A surge in problems) epidemicDerived terms
* canker rash * diaper rash * heat rash * hiker’s rash * nappy rash * nettle rash * rashguard * rashie * rash vest * reef rash * rose rash * tooth rashSee also
* prudent * recklessVerb
- (Foxe)
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) , (etyl) Rasch, probably from Arras in France.Noun
(-)- (John Donne)
Etymology 3
For araceVerb
(es)- rashing of helms and riving plates asunder