jimpy

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From jimp +‎ -y.

Adjective[edit]

jimpy (comparative more jimpy, superlative most jimpy)

  1. neat, jimp
    • 1911, DM Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎[1], HTML edition (Biography), The Gutenberg Project, published 2007:
      … though more than a hundred folk sitting in his company had beheld him dauting her with his arm round her jimpy waist, not five minutes before.
References[edit]
  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, jimp

Etymology 2[edit]

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Adjective[edit]

jimpy (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Describing a sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in the males.
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