Image, subs. (colloquial).—An affectionate reproof: e.g. ‘Come out, you
little image!’ See Little Devil.
Immense, adj. (colloquial).—A general superlative: cf. Awful, Bloody
&c.
1771. G. A. Stevens, Songs Comic & Satyrical, p. 216. Dear Bragg,
Hazard, Loo, and Quadrille, Delightful! extatic! immense!
1884. W. C. Russell, Jack’s Courtship, xxv. ‘What do you think of
this, Florence darling?’ I whispered. ‘Is it not immense?’
1888. Florida Times Union, 8 Feb. The afterpiece is said to be
immense.
1889. Bird O’ Freedom, 7 Aug. p. 1. If you say of a man he is
immense, you pay him a compliment.
1891. Tales from Town Topics, ‘Mimi & Bébé’, p. 65. The love of
twins is phenomenal. It is immense, pure, and heavenly.
Immensikoff, subs. (common).—A fur-lined overcoat. [From the burden of
a song, ‘The Shoreditch Toff’, sung (c. 1868) by the late Arthur Lloyd,
who described himself as Immensikoff, and wore an upper garment heavily
trimmed with fur].
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 25 Sept., p. 6., col. 1. Heavy swells clad
in Immensikoffs, which is the slang term, I believe, for those very
fine and large fur robes affected by men about town.
Immortals, subs. (military).—The Seventy-Sixth Foot. [Most of its men
were wounded, but escaped being killed, in India in 1806]. Also The
Pigs and The Old Seven and Sixpennies.
Imp, subs. (colloquial).—A mischievous brat; a small or minor devil:
originally, a child. [Trench: there are epitaphs extant commencing
‘Here lies that noble imp’; and Lord Cromwell writing to Henry VIII
speaks of ‘that noble imp, your son’].
1771. Beattie, Minstrel, 1. Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous
fray Of squabbling imps.