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simp | jimp |

As a noun simp

is (slang) a simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.

As an adjective jimp is

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

simp

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.
  • *1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 59:
  • *:Pimps and simps would fall in from here and there and everywhere, grabbing thousand-dollar advances from the madames and leaving their lady friends in pawn.
  • * 1981 , Philip K. Dick, Valis , ISBN 0553205943, p. 105
    • Groggy from my nap I turn on the TV and try to watch.... Morons and simps appear in the screen, drool like pinheads and waterheads....

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    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 ()