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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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
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
It left the jimp little waist as round and definite as the eye could ask, while the full flow of the skirt exposed the neat foot, deftly incased in stout Jefferson shoes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
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
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