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
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
When we came to the stair-foot, Ladies were dancing, jimp and sma’, But in the twinkling of an eye, My wee wee man was clean awa’.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
O then bespake her daughter dear— She was baith jimp and sma'— "O row me in a pair o' sheets, And tow me owre the wa'."
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
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