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Jimmy vs Jimpy - What's the difference?

jimmy | jimpy |

As a noun jimmy

is chocolate sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.

As a verb jimmy

is to pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar.

As an adjective jimpy is

neat, jimp, neatly, tightly or jimpy can be (biology) describing a sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in the males.

jimmy

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • or Jim, also used as a formal given name.
  • * 1979 , Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, ISBN 0151239576, page 184:
    • Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy .
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened form of (Jimmy Riddle), a piddle.

    • Synonyms

    * (piddle) piddle, pee, wee

    Derived terms

    * Jimmy Riddle * Jimmy Woodser

    jimpy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From

    Adjective

    (er)
  • neat, jimp, neatly, tightly
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1911 , year_published=2007 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=DM Moir , title=The Life of Mansie Wauch , chapter= citation , genre=Biography , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=… 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. }}

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (biology) Describing a sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in the males.
    • References
    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, jimp