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jimp

jimp adjective: neat; trim; delicate.

Adjective

jimp (comparative jimper, superlative jimpest)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, dated) neat; trim; delicate
    • 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?1899, Neil Munro, Gilian the Dreamer, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007
    • … Annette was on hand, stony-eyed but mighty jimp in a gown that seemed to consist of flowers and gauze.1994, George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, Reprint edition, HarperCollins, published 2011, →ISBN
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, dated) scant; barely sufficient.

Noun

jimp (plural jimps)

  1. A notch on the spine of a knife blade to increase grip, usually in sets of three or more (jimping).
  2. Such a notch elsewhere on the knife (handle scales, liner lock, choil) for the same purpose (grippiness).

jimp meaning in Urdu

jimp in Urdu

دبلا, سڈول

Synonyms of jimp

Forms of jimp

Adjective
comparativejimper
superlativejimpest
Noun
pluraljimps

Origin of jimp

Of unknown origin.

Words formed from jimp

Questions about jimp

What does jimp mean?
Jimp means neat; trim; delicate.
What is jimp in Urdu?
Jimp in Urdu is دبلا, سڈول. See Jimp meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is jimp?
Jimp can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near jimp in the dictionary

  1. jimmy-proof
  2. jimmying
  3. jimmying up
  4. jimmyproof
  5. Jimmys
  6. jimp
  7. jimper
  8. jimpest
  9. jimpies
  10. jimping
  11. jimply

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jimp (page history and authors); jimp (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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