jimp
Americanadjective
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slender; trim; delicate.
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scant; barely sufficient.
Other Word Forms
- jimply adverb
- jimpness noun
Etymology
Origin of jimp
First recorded in 1500–10; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are the words: Stramash. jimp, musnud, kudos.
From Time Magazine Archive
He's ta'en her by the middle jimp, And by the grass-green sleeve; He's lifted her over the fauld-dyke, And speer'd at her sma' leave.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
The villagers who remembered her said that at times she swelled as if she was about to be confined, and at other times was as jimp as a young girl.
From Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century by Napier, James
From this it may be inferred that the "Lass of Lochroyan" did not owe her "middle jimp" to any very deadly artificial means of compression.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
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