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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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
She strawed the roses on the ground, Threw her mantle on the brier, And the belt around her middle sae jimp, As a taiken that she'd been there.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Do I look so terrible old, Gilian, that you cannot think of me as not so bad-looking either, with a bonny eye, they said, and a jimp waist, and a foot like the honey-bee?
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
And wha will lace my middle jimp Wi' a new-made London ban'?
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
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