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Impish vs Waggish - What's the difference?

impish | waggish |

As adjectives the difference between impish and waggish

is that impish is mischievous; of or befitting an imp while waggish is witty, jocular, like a wag.

impish

English

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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (naughtily or annoyingly playful): implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish

    waggish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • witty, jocular, like a wag
  • mischievous, tricky

    • Derived terms

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