jimp
Americanadjective
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slender; trim; delicate.
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scant; barely sufficient.
Other Word Forms
- jimply adverb
- jimpness noun
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
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 Rogers, Charles
From this it may be inferred that the "Lass of Lochroyan" did not owe her "middle jimp" to any very deadly artificial means of compression.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
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 Bates, Katherine Lee
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