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impishness

noun

Etymology

From impish + -ness.

  1. derived from *bʰuH-✻ — “to appear; to become; to grow”
  2. derived from ἔμφῠτος — “implanted; planted”
  3. derived from *imputō✻ — “to graft”
  4. inherited from *impōn✻ — “to graft”
  5. inherited from impian
  6. inherited from impen
  7. formed as impish — “imp + -ish”
  8. suffixed as impishness — “impish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being impish

    The state or quality of being impish; mischievousness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for impishness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA