Imp

Noun

 * 1)  A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.
 * 2)  A scion, offspring; a child.
 * 3) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
 * And thou most dreaded impe of highest Ioue, / Faire Venus sonne, [...] come to mine ayde [...].
 * 1) A child of the Devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful.
 * 2) A mischievous child.
 * 3) * 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
 * I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist...

Synonyms

 * (mischievous child) brat, urchin

Related terms

 * impish

Verb

 * 1)  To plant or engraft.
 * 2)  To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.
 * "For, if I imp my wing on Thine",--Herbert (1633)
 * 1) To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.

Adjectives for Imp
impudent; squabbling; mercurial; sturdy; unmerciful.

Thesaurus
Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob, Hobgoblin, JD, Mab, Oberon, Puck, Titania, appendage, arm, bad boy, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee, booger, bough, branch, brat, brownie, buffoon, bugger, cluricaune, cutup, devil, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, dwarf, elf, enfant terrible, erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, funmaker, gamin, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hand, hob, hobgoblin, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, joint, joker, jokester, juvenile delinquent, knave, kobold, leg, leprechaun, limb, link, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lobe, lobule, member, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, monkey, offshoot, organ, ouphe, peri, pinion, pixie, poltergeist, pooka, practical joker, prankster, puca, puck, punk, punk kid, pwca, ramification, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, runner, scamp, scapegrace, scion, spoiled brat, spray, sprig, sprite, spur, switch, sylph, sylphid, tail, tendril, tokoloshe, troll, twig, urchin, wag, whippersnapper, wing, young devil

Etymology 1
impa: ("graft"). Cognate with Danish ympe:, German Impf:, Swedish ymp:.

Etymology 2
impian:, apparently ultimately from a Latin source. Cognate with German impfen:.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 惡魔, 恶魔,  邪鬼
 * Dutch:, aardmannetje
 * Finnish:, pikkupiru,
 * Greek: διαβολάκι


 * Japanese: 邪鬼,
 * Polish: diabełek, imp
 * Russian:, ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 小鬼
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: διαβολάκι


 * Japanese:
 * Russian:, ; ,  ,  ,  баловник


 * : Teufelchen, Kobold , Schlingel
 * : 꼬마 도깨비 (kkoma doggaebi)
 * : 꼬마 도깨비 (kkoma doggaebi)


 * : diabrete
 * : vragolan, vragolanka
 * : diablillo, bribonzuelo

Anagrams

 * MIP
 * PIM
 * PMI