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Blimp vs Blim - What's the difference?

blimp | blim |

As nouns the difference between blimp and blim

is that blimp is a military middle class englishman intolerant of others’ ideas while blim is (slang|uk) a chunk of cannabis resin.

blimp

English

(wikipedia blimp)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
  • * 2004 , , 16 & 23 Feb 2004
    • The Goodyear blimp over Giants Stadium
  • (slang) An obese person.
  • A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.

    • Synonyms

    * barrage balloon * Gossage

    Derived terms

    * Blimp * blimpish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
    • After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.
    Over a few years the software had blimped into typical bloatware.

    Synonyms

    * blimp out

    See also

    * airship * balloon * dirigible * zeppelin, Zeppelin

    External links

    * * English terms with unknown etymologies

    blim

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.
  • * 2005 , James Fergusson, Kandahar Cockney (page 322)
    • Getting stoned in Afghanistan was an extreme sport, a very long way indeed from the polite blims of hash that middle-class Londoners sometimes consume at parties.
  • * 2008 , Dhivan Thomas Jones, Green Eros (page 114)
    • Have those chaps nothing better to do than to bust me for a blim ?
  • * 2011 , Niall Griffiths, Grits (page 274)
    • — Can anyone spair us a blim ? Mags sez.