jimp

American  

[jimp] / dʒɪmp /

Or gimp

adjective

Scot. and North England.

1. slender; trim; delicate.

2. scant; barely sufficient.

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Other Word Forms

• jimply adverb
• jimpness noun

Etymology

Origin of jimp

First recorded in 1500–10; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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

"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 was about two or three and thirty, wi' light brown hair, hazel e'en, and a waist as jimp and sma' as ye ever saw upon a human creature.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay

Thy father will shoe thy bonny foot, Thy mother will glove thy hand,10 Thy sister will lace thy middle jimp, Till Lord Gregory come to land.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various