Synonyms of the word

imp

• n. (obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.
• n. (obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child.
• n. A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less…
• n. A mischievous child.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair…
• n. A baby Tasmanian devil.
• v. (obsolete) To plant or engraft.
• v. (archaic) To graft, implant; to set or fix.
• v. (falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.
• v. To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.

brownie

• n. (cooking) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
• n. (folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
• n. (paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Also rarely used for a Native American…

child

• n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal…
• n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (with possessive) One's descendants, regardless of age.
• n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly.

elf

• n. (Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim…
• n. Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. Usually…
• n. (fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar…
• n. A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
• v. (now rare) To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.

faerie

• n. Archaic spelling of fairy.
• n. Realm of the fays, fairyland.

faery

• n. Obsolete spelling of fairy.

fairy

• n. (uncountable, obsolete) The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.
• n. A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in…
• n. (Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
• n. Two species of hummingbird in the genus Heliothryx.

fay

• v. To fit.
• v. To join or unite closely or tightly.
• v. To lie close together.
• v. To fadge.
• v. (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
• n. A fairy.
• adj. Fairy like.
• n. (US slang) A white person.
• adj. (US slang) White.

fry

• v. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
• n. (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried strip of potato.
• n. (Ireland, Britain) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
• n. Young fish; fishlings.
• n. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
• n. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
• n. A kind of sieve.
• n. A drain.

gremlin

• n. A mythical creature reputed to be mischievously inclined to damage or dismantle machinery.
• n. (by extension) Any mysterious, unknown source of trouble or mischief.

hob

• n. A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
• n. (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The top cooking surface on a cooker. It typically comprises several…
• n. A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
• n. A male ferret.
• n. The hub of a wheel.
• v. (transitive) To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
• n. (obsolete) A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
• n. (obsolete) A countryman; a rustic or yokel.

kid

• n. A young goat.
• n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
• n. Kidskin.
• n. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
• n. A young antelope.
• n. (informal) a child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
• n. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
• n. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
• n. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular decade or area.
• n. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (used in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
• n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

minor

• adj. Of little significance or importance.
• adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
• adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
• n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
• n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
• n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
• v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

monkey

• n. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from…
• n. (informal) Any nonhuman primate, including apes.
• n. (informal) A mischievous child.
• n. (Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling.
• n. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar…
• n. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance.
• n. (blackjack) A face card.
• n. (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder…
• n. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head…
• n. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
• v. (informal) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

nestling

• n. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
• n. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
• v. present participle of nestle.
• n. The act of one who nestles.

nipper

• n. One who, or that which, nips.
• n. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
• n. (slang) A child.
• n. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
• n. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
• n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
• n. (obsolete) A satirist.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
• n. A fish, the cunner.
• n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
• n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
• n. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

pixie

• n. (mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
• n. (slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.
• n. (astronomy, meteorology) An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting…

pixy

• n. Alternative spelling of pixie.

rapscallion

• n. A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
• n. (attributive) Roguish, disreputable.

rascal

• n. A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
• n. A cheeky person or creature, sometimes diminutive; a troublemaker.
• n. A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.
• adj. (archaic) Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.

scalawag

• n. (pejorative, archaic) A scrawny cow.
• n. (pejorative, archaic) A rascal.
• n. (pejorative, US, archaic or historical) Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction…

scallywag

• n. (pejorative, dated, chiefly Britain) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.

scamp

• n. A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
• n. A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
• v. (dated) To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.

shaver

• n. One who shaves.
• n. A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
• n. A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
• n. (slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
• n. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
• n. (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

sprite

• n. (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition.
• n. (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
• n. The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
• n. (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
• n. An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
• n. A spayed female ferret.

tiddler

• n. A small person.
• n. (Britain, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.

tike

• n. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog).
• n. A boorish person.
• n. Archaic form of tick (a kind of arthropod).

tyke

• n. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
• n. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
• n. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.

youngster

• n. A young person.