Definizione monolingua

imp

imp (third-person singular simple present imps, present participle imping, simple past and past participle imped)

1. (obsolete) To plant or engraft.
2. (falconry) To engraft feathers into a birds wing.

   ""For, if I imp my wing on Thine"",--Herbert (1633)

3. To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.

imp (plural imps)

1. (obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc. [9th-17th c.]
2. (obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child. [15th-19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:

     And thou most dreaded impe of highest Ioue, / Faire Venus sonne, [...] come to mine ayde [...].

3. A child of the Devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful. [from 16th c.]
4. A mischievous child. [from 17th c.]
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     Ive left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesnt exist...

Definizione dizionario imp

birichino

briccone

diavoletto

folletto

malizioso

sveglio

Altri significati:

A child of the Devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful. [from 16th c.]

A mischievous child. [from 17th c.]

To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.

(obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc. [9th-17th c.]

demonic creature

(falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.

(obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child. [15th-19th c.]

mischievous child

(obsolete) To plant or engraft.