jimpy
English
Etymology 1
From jimp + -y
Adjective
jimpy (comparative more jimpy, superlative most jimpy)
- neat, jimp
- 1911, DM Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch (Biography), HTML edition, 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.
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References
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, jimp
Adjective
jimpy (not comparable)
- (biology) Describing a sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in the males.