impish

读音

• /ˈɪmpɪʃ/

释义

1. 顽皮的，调皮捣蛋的

   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.

   1897, H. G. Wells, chapter 1, in A Story of the Stone Age, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2012:

   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.

   1942, Virginia Woolf, chapter 20, in The Death of the Moth, and other essays, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2011: