From <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span> + -ness. <span class="searchmatch">jimpness</span> (uncountable) The quality of being <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span>. 1917, Flora Annie Webster Steel, Marmaduke, page 19: The general pinkness of complexion...
<span class="searchmatch">jimping</span> (uncountable) A series of notches (<span class="searchmatch">jimps</span>) down the spine of a blade, created to provide grip on a knife beyond the bolster...
or more (<span class="searchmatch">jimping</span>). Such a notch elsewhere on the knife (handle scales, liner lock, choil) for the same purpose (grippiness). <span class="searchmatch">jimply</span> <span class="searchmatch">jimpness</span> jimpy gimp...
IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪmps/ Rhymes: -ɪmps <span class="searchmatch">jimps</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span> + -ly. <span class="searchmatch">jimply</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">jimply</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">jimply</span>) (Scotland) In a <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span> manner. 1790, James Macaulay (of Edinburgh), Poems on...
jimpest superlative form of <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span>: most <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span>...
jimper comparative form of <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span>: more <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span>...
superlative most genty) (Scotland, dialect) neat; trim 1789, Robert Burns, Beware o' Bonnie Ann: Sae <span class="searchmatch">jimply</span> lac'd her genty waist, / That sweetly ye might span....
A-Hunting: My lady's gown, there's gairs upon't, / And gowden flowers sae rare upon't; / But Jenny's <span class="searchmatch">jimps</span> and jirkinet, / My lord thinks meikle mair upon't....
From <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span> + -y. jimpy (comparative more jimpy, superlative most jimpy) Neat, <span class="searchmatch">jimp</span>. 1911, D. M. Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch[1], HTML edition (Biography)...