jimp
Americanadjective
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slender; trim; delicate.
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scant; barely sufficient.
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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
"Thy father will shoe thy bonny foot, "Thy mother will glove thy hand, "Thy sister will lace thy middle jimp, "Till Lord Gregory come to land.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Scott, Walter, Sir
She sat her mount superbly; as jimp and erect as a willow sapling.
From A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today by Raine, William MacLeod
I noticed that he carried one arm in a sling, but otherwise he was still the model rogue, jimp and smiling.
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
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