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1
an appealingly mischievous person
- scooped up the little imp and took him to bed
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2
an evil spirit
- a story about a crumbling mansion infested with a brood of imps
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- apparition,
- banshee,
- bogey
- (also bogie or bogy),
- bugbear,
- familiar,
- familiar spirit,
- genius,
- phantasm
- (also fantasm),
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- shade,
- shadow,
- specter
- (or spectre),
- spirit,
- spook,
- vision,
- wraith
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The first known use of imp was before the 12th century
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