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Wrath of the Lich King, if you're a Warlock that likes to blow things up, the imp is the demon that blows things up right with you.

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  1. noun A mischievous child.
  2. noun A small demon.
  3. noun Obsolete A graft.

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  • My suspicions focus on some coins supplied to me by Kirstunu, whom you may remember Well do I recall his imp-plant, Juax. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
  • I will sit here and get up my one o'clock notes for the imp, and if you need me, tell me so The major bestowed a slow quizzical smile upon her and took up his pen. —  Andrew the Glad
  • A little native imp was our guide, seduced by the gift of a German knife, value three-halfpence, and my Macassar boy Baderoon brought his chopper to clear the path if necessary We had to walk about half a mile along the beach, the ground behind the village being mostly swampy, and then turned into the forest along a path which leads to the native village of Wamma, about three miles off on the other side of the island. —  The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2
  • Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wert not thou St. Vitus' imp--away, thou ague Advance, ye mates! —  Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
  • This cardinal is an agreeable imp, and I must give him a kiss for his complaisance. —  The Daughter of an Empress
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English impe, scion, sprig, offspring, from Old English impa, young shoot, from impian, to graft, ultimately from Medieval Latin impotus, graft, from Greek emphutos, grafted, from emphuein, to implant : en-, in; see en-2 + phuein, to make grow; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English impe, ympe, from Anglo-Saxon impe = Swedish ymp = Danish ympe (Welsh imp, from English) = Old French F. ente (later D. ent) = Provencal empeut, a scion, shoot, twig, from Middle Latin impotus, a graft: see imp, v.
  2. from Middle English impen, from Anglo-Saxon *impian (in Somner, not authenticated) = Middle Low German inpoten = Old High German impitōn, impton, imphōn, Middle High German impfeten, impfen, German impfen = Swedish ympa = Danish ympe = Old French and F. enter (later D. enten) = Provencal empeltar, enpeutar, from Middle Latin *impotare, graft, from impotus, a graft, from Greek ἒμφυτος, implanted, inborn (later ἐμφυτεύειν, implant, graft), from ἐμφύειν, implant, passive grow in, from ἐν in, + φύειν, produce, pass, φύεσθαι, grow (later φυτόν, a plant).
 

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