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pimp | jimp |

As adjectives the difference between pimp and jimp

is that pimp is excellent, fashionable, stylish while jimp is neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

As a noun pimp

is a man who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.

As a verb pimp

is to act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

As a numeral pimp

is five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

pimp

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Perhaps from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A man who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.
  • A man who can easily attract women.
    • Derived terms
    * pimpdom * pimphood * pimpness * pimpship * pimp slap, pimp-slap

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  • To prostitute someone.
    • The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
  • (transitive, US, African American Vernacular English) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also (pimp out)).
    • You pimped out that AC (air conditioner) f'real (for real), dawg.
  • (transitive, medicine, slang) To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  • * 2004 , Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective , page 183
    • Only an attending physician can pimp' a chief resident; the chief resident and attending can '''pimp''' a junior resident; they all three can ' pimp an intern.
  • (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.
    • I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
  • (slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
    • I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.
    Synonyms
    * pitch, promote, tout, spruik
    Derived terms
    * pimp off * pimp out * pimp up

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish

    • See also

    * pimping * player * playah

    See also

    * madam

    External links

    * Double-Tongued Dictionary definition

    Etymology 2

    (Yan Tan Tethera) From (etyl) numerals. Cognate with Welsh pump

    Numeral

    (head)
  • five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting
    • See also
    *

    References

    * {{reference-book , last = Wright , first = Peter , title = Cumbrian Chat , origyear = 1995 , publisher = Dalesman Publishing Company , id = ISBN 185-568-092-0 , pages = 7 }} * {{reference-book , last = Deakin , first = Michael A.B. , editor = Leigh-Lancaster, David , title = The Name of the Number , origyear = 2007 , url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sSGPsbUdzuMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Name+of+the+Number&client=firefox-a&sig=rltANTWrl82R7Ho4mEv0PivE698 , accessdate = 2008-05-17 , publisher = Australian Council for Educational Research , id = ISBN 0864317573 , pages = 75 }} * {{reference-book , last = Varvogli , first = Aliki , title = Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide , origyear = 2002 , url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YwW7f0jB9swC&printsec=frontcover&dq=subject:%22Proulx,+Annie%22&client=firefox-a&sig=1V4j_clhRbrJm7XnesnFDk8NU0Q , accessdate = 2008-05-17 , publisher = Continuum International Publishing Group , id = ISBN 0826452337 , pages = 24-25 }}

    Anagrams

    * English cardinal numbers

    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 ()