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blimpy

blimpy adjective: resembling a blimp; bloated.

Adjective

blimpy (comparative blimpier, superlative blimpiest)

  1. (informal) Resembling a blimp; bloated
    • The blimpy costume, roughly humanoid, covered her from the neck to the wrists to the ankles with a plain white muslin fabric (why do we always think of fat people as pale?) stuffed with something airy, perhaps shredded toilet paper.1988 May 27, Laura Molzahn, “Bodily Fears”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of blimpy

comparativeblimpier
superlativeblimpiest

Origin of blimpy

From blimp + -y.

Words that rhyme with blimpy

Questions about blimpy

What does blimpy mean?
Blimpy means resembling a blimp; bloated.
What part of speech is blimpy?
Blimpy is an adjective.

Words near blimpy in the dictionary

  1. blimpishness
  2. blimplike
  3. blimps
  4. blimps out
  5. blimps up
  6. blimpy
  7. blims
  8. blimy
  9. blin
  10. blinatumomab
  11. blinchik

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