What a little imp he is!
Source: tatoeba (68334)
Imp
//ɪmp//
Synonyms for "imp" (153 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (46)
Related words (76)
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More general
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Synonyms
6 entriescoordinate
4 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
8 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
31 entriesShowing 16 of 31 words.
Translations
125 translations across 29 languages.
Belarusian
4 entries- д'ябаля́ noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- д'ябалё noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- чарцяня́ noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- чарцянё noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Bulgarian
4 entries- въшльо noun (mischievous child)
- дя́волче noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- немирник noun (mischievous child)
- палавник noun (mischievous child)
Catalan
3 entries- diablet noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- dimoniet noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- pillet noun (mischievous child)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 小鬼 noun (mischievous child)
- 惡魔 /恶魔 noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- 邪鬼 noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Danish
1 entries- skælm noun (mischievous child)
Dutch
3 entries- aardmannetje noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- kabouter noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- schelm noun (mischievous child)
Esperanto
1 entries- diableto noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Finnish
4 entries- kakara noun (mischievous child)
- maahinen noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- pikkupiru noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- piru noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
French
2 entries- diablotin noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- lutin noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
German
4 entries- Bengel noun (mischievous child)
- Kobold noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- Schelm noun (mischievous child)
- Schlingel noun (mischievous child)
Greek
2 entries- διαβολάκι noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- διαβολάκι noun (mischievous child)
Hungarian
2 entries- csirkefogó noun (mischievous child)
- kópé noun (mischievous child)
Ido
1 entries- diableto noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Ingrian
3 entries- pahalain noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- tontti noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- vaadulain noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Italian
4 entries- demonietto noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- diavoletto noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- diavoletto noun (mischievous child)
- folletto noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Japanese
3 entries- 悪魔 noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- 茶目 noun (mischievous child)
- 邪鬼 noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Korean
2 entries- 사귀 noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- 악마 noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Latin
1 entries- diabolullus noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Macedonian
4 entries- не́мирко noun (mischievous child)
- не́мирник noun (mischievous child)
- па́лавко noun (mischievous child)
- па́лавник noun (mischievous child)
Marathi
1 entries- इम्प noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Norman
1 entries- dgiâbliotîn noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Norwegian
1 entries- skjelm noun (mischievous child)
Polish
4 entries- ananas noun (mischievous child)
- ancymon noun (mischievous child)
- baciar noun (mischievous child)
- chochlik noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Portuguese
4 entries- diabrete noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- diabrete noun (mischievous child)
- pirralho noun (mischievous child)
- pivete noun (mischievous child)
Romanian
1 entries- drăcușor noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Russian
4 entries- баловни́к noun (mischievous child)
- баловни́ца noun (mischievous child)
- бесёнок noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- бесёнок noun (mischievous child)
Spanish
2 entries- diablillo noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- pícaro noun (mischievous child)
Swedish
1 entries- smådjävul noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бі́сик noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- бісеня́ noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- дияволеня́ noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
- чортеня́ noun (small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
That pesky imp must be punished.
Source: tatoeba (5288751)
"If I might offer you a word of advice, Inspector, it would be to arrest the page, who, as I understand, has only recently come into your service, Doctor." "The young imp cannot be found," said Dr. Trevelyan; "the maid and the cook have just been searching for him."
Source: tatoeba (7027228)
Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie’s evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travelers.
Source: tatoeba (7077058)
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