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Pronunciation: [ˈɪmps] (IPA)

The word "imps" generally refers to mischievous or playful creatures, particularly supernatural beings in mythology. However, there are several other synonyms that can be used to describe such beings, including sprites, gremlins, goblins, fairies, pixies, and brownies. Each of these words has its own specific connotations and cultural significance, so it is important to choose the right one for the context in which it is used. For example, while "brownies" may seem like an innocuous term, it actually refers to household spirits from Scottish and English folklore who are said to perform helpful tasks around the home, while "goblins" are typically associated with mischief-making and trickery.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Imps

I could give you a host more, if necessary; for all the accidents that so often befall the river craft in the highlands, are said to be tricks played off by these imps of the Dunderberg; but I see that you are nodding, so let us turn in for the night."
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Little whimsical imps of mischief shone in his eyes.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
After the little imps had reported, the chief kabouter, when his turn came, cried out: "I shall tell of three brothers, and what each one did with the first silver penny he earned."
"Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks"
William Elliot Griffis

Famous quotes with Imps

  • Even if the barrier now should disappear and the Flowers withdraw their attention from our Earth, we still would have been shaken from the comfortable little rut which assumed that life as we know it was the only kind of life and that our road of knowledge was the only one that was broad and straight and paved. There had been ogres in the past, by finally the ogres had been banished. The trolls and ghouls and imps and all the others of the tribe had been pushed out of our lives, for they could survive only on the misty shores of ignorance and in the land of superstition. Now, I thought, we’d know an ignorance again (but a different kind of ignorance) and superstition, too, for superstition fed upon the lack of knowledge. With this hint of another world—even if its denizens should decide not to flaunt themselves, even if we should find a way to stop them—the trolls and ghouls and goblins would be back with us again. There’d be chimney corner gossip of this other place and a frantic, desperate search to rationalize the implied horror of its vast and unknown reaches, and out of this very search would rise a horror greater than any the other world could hold. We’d be afraid, as we had been before, of the darkness that lay beyond the little circle of our campfire.
    Clifford D. Simak

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