jimp
Americanadjective
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slender; trim; delicate.
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scant; barely sufficient.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of jimp
First recorded in 1500–10; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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These are the words: Stramash. jimp, musnud, kudos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But Lady Mouse, baith jimp and sma’, Crept into a hole beneath the wa’; ‘Squeak!’ quoth she, ‘I’m weel awa.’
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
O mony a jimp an' gentle dame, In jewell'd pomp was there; But she was first among them a', In peerless beauty rare!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
Or wha will lace my middle jimp, Wi' a new-made London band?
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
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