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nimp

nimp noun: a nymph.

Noun

nimp (plural nimps)

  1. (nonstandard, slang) A nymph.
    • Then you fish with a nimp, when it should be an Alexandra, or strike too soon or too hard, or play the fish too heavily, […]1950, Country Life, volume 107, page 223
    • The majority of Western fly-fishing guides tend to be the sort of folks you meet in the cheap seats at professional sporting events—the sort of decent, working-class personages who call a beer a "brewski," a nymph a "nimp," a lost fish a "long-range release," and a minor flesh wound a "Hertz...2002, David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water

Forms of nimp

pluralnimps

Questions about nimp

What does nimp mean?
Nimp means a nymph.
What part of speech is nimp?
Nimp is a noun.
What is the plural of nimp?
The plural of nimp is nimps.

Words near nimp in the dictionary

  1. nimono
  2. nimorazole
  3. nimotuzumab
  4. Nimoy
  5. Nimoys
  6. nimp
  7. nimph
  8. Nimphius
  9. nimphs
  10. nimpingang
  11. nimpingangs

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