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Jimpy vs Pimpy - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between jimpy and pimpy

is that jimpy is neat, jimp, neatly, tightly while pimpy is like a pimp.

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

    pimpy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Like a pimp.
  • * 1997 , Harold Augenbraum, Margarite Fernández Olmos, The Latino reader (page 477)
    • Like Mr. Paresi, a pimpy Brooklyn lawyer who my mother claims is the number-one criminal defense attorney in New York, complete with an impressive roster of Mafia clients.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 16, author=Alex Kuczynski, title=Nude Awakening, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It’s kind of pimpy , sleazy, Eurotrash-guys-in-Vegas fashion, but it’s fashion.” }}