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slimpsy

slimpsy is the alternative form of slimsy.

Meaning of slimsy

Adjective

slimsy (comparative more slimsy or slimsier, superlative most slimsy or slimsiest)

  1. (US, colloquial, dated) flimsy; frail
    • In front of the store, and in and out of the interminable pushcarts, with their flaring oil-lamps at night illuminating a bewildering miscellany of merchandise,—everything from spoiled grapefruit to slimsy suspenders, Rosey played and fought and bit her way.1922, Robert Gordon Anderson, The Isle of Seven Moons, Chapter 8

Forms of slimpsy

comparativeslimpsier
superlativeslimpsiest

Questions about slimpsy

What is slimpsy the alternative form of?
Slimpsy is the alternative form of slimsy.

Words near slimpsy in the dictionary

  1. Slimnic
  2. slimplectic
  3. slimpod
  4. slimpsier
  5. slimpsiest
  6. slimpsy
  7. slims
  8. slims down
  9. slimsy
  10. slimwear
  11. slimwing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slimpsy (page history and authors); slimsy (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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