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English
Etymology
From jimp + -ly.
Adverb
jimply (comparative more jimply, superlative most jimply)
- (Scotland) In a jimp manner.
- 1790, James Macaulay (of Edinburgh), Poems on various subjects, in Scots and English (page 129)
- Whan Winter hauds the warld in chains,
An' snawy wreaths adorn the plains,
Whan folk can jimply gang their lanes
For fear o' couping