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Jimpy vs Jimp - What's the difference?

jimpy | jimp |

As adjectives the difference between jimpy and jimp

is that 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 while jimp is (dated|scotland and n england) neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

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

    jimp

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (dated, Scotland and N England) neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1899 , year_published=2007 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Neil Munro , title=Gilian the Dreamer , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Do I look so terrible old, Gilian, that you cannot think of me as not so bad-looking either, with a bonny eye, they said, and a jimp waist, and a foot like the honey-bee? }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1994 , year_published=2011 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=George MacDonald Fraser , title=Flashman and the Angel of the Lord , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher=HarperCollins , isbn=9780007325696 , page= , passage=… Annette was on hand, stony-eyed but mighty jimp in a gown that seemed to consist of flowers and gauze. }}
  • (dated, Scotland and N England) scant; barely sufficient.

    • See also

    * gimp ()