Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Neat; jimp.
- Tightly; neatly.
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- adjective biology Describing a
sex -linkedmutation inmice that causes severehypomyelination in themales . - adjective
neat ,jimp ,neatly ,tightly
Etymologies
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From jimp + -y
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Examples
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The rascal had the brass to say at once, that he had not seen word or wittens of the lassie for a month, 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.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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The rascal had the brass to say at once, that he had not seen word or wittens of the lassie for a month, 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.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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