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Jumpy vs Jimpy - What's the difference?

jumpy | jimpy |

As adjectives the difference between jumpy and jimpy

is that jumpy is nervous and excited while 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.

jumpy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Nervous and excited.

    • 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