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jimpy

jimpy adjective: neat, jimp.

Adjective (1)

jimpy (comparative more jimpy, superlative most jimpy)

  1. Neat, jimp.
    • […]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.1911, D. M. Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch, HTML edition (Biography), The Gutenberg Project, published 2007

Noun (1)

jimpy (uncountable)

  1. A sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in males.
    • When cerebellar tissues from normal and Jimpy are grown on the same slide in a common medium, no mutual effects can be observed: the Jimpy does not myelinate, and the normal does not stop myelination.1973, Norbert N. Herschkowitz, “Chapter 4: Genetic Disorders of Brain Development: Animal Models”, in Gerald E. Gaull, editor, Biology of Brain Dysfunction: Volume 2, Plenum Press, page 172
    • The jimpy phenotype is marked by a CNS-specific dysmyelination and has provided an authentic animal model for PMD (Sidman et al., 1964). Typically, 50% of the male progeny of jimpy carrier females are affected, whereas the heterozygous carrier female itself is unaffected.1999, Klaus-Armin Nave, Chapter 2: X-Linked Dysmyelination: Mouse Models of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, Brian Popko (editor), Mouse Models in the Study of Genetic Neurological Disorders, Kluwer...

Adjective (2)

jimpy (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, carrying or affected by the mutation.

Noun (2)

jimpy (plural jimpies)

  1. (slang) A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG).
    • 1985 [Hodder and Stoughton], Terence Strong, Conflict of Lions, 2014, Silver Fox Press, unnumbered page,
      Before they had come to a standstill, the protective cover had come off the powerful twin GPMG ‘jimpies’ mounted in the rear compartment by the laconic Australian, Corporal Kangers Webster.
    • Immediately to his right was our very latest addition to the hill, Frank, on one of the Jimpies. To his right, leaning against the wall with his sniper rifle, was Caz.2013, Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken by War, Mainstream Publishing, unnumbered page

Forms of jimpy

Adjective
comparativemore jimpy
superlativemost jimpy
Noun
pluraljimpies

Origin of jimpy

From jimp + -y.

Questions about jimpy

What does jimpy mean?
Jimpy means neat, jimp.
What part of speech is jimpy?
Jimpy can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near jimpy in the dictionary

  1. jimpson weed
  2. jimpson weeds
  3. jimpsons
  4. jimpsonweed
  5. jimpsonweeds
  6. jimpy
  7. jims
  8. jims up
  9. jimscaline
  10. jimson
  11. jimson weed

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