mimp

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English

Etymology

Imitative in origin.

Noun

mimp (plural mimps)

  1. A pursing of the lips.
    • 1786, John Burgoyne, The Heiress. A Comedy in Five Acts, page 37:
      Sure you muſt have obſerved the drop of the under lip is exploded ſince Lady Simpermode broke a tooth—(Sets her mouth affectedly)—I am preparing the caſt of the lips for the enſuing winter—thus—It is to be call’d the Paphian mimp.
    • 1948, Gil Meynier, Stranger at the Door, page 12:
      The Paphian mimp was a certain pucker of the lips considered needful for the highly genteel.
    • 1973, Barry N. Schwartz, Human Connection and the New Media, page 170:
      My working hunch was that the very young leopard frog tadpole would make a near-perfect donor. […] While he’s little, he’ll mimp-mouth algae from the flanks of a tubifex and harm nothing but a little vermigrade pride.

Verb

mimp (third-person singular simple present mimps, present participle mimping, simple past and past participle mimped)

  1. To purse one’s lips.
    • 1755, H. Woodward, The Comic Tunes and Songs in the Entertainment Call’d Proteus, or Harlequin in China:
      The Beaux alter’d Creatures,
      Now mimp up their Features,
      And trip it, and trip it ſo pretty; […]
    • 1788, Elizabeth Hervey, Melissa and Marcia; or the Sisters: a novel, volume 1, pages 61–62:
      When firſt ſhe emerged from retirement, it was natural ſhe ſhould feel ſhy and embarraſſed, which always appeared by a certain mimping with her mouth; afterwards ſhe thought it becoming , and improved upon it: It was ſo univerſally adopted by the young Ladies of the ton, that I think it incumbent on myſelf to give a particular account of this grace for the benefit of thoſe who have no opportunities of ſeeing it practiſed.
    • 1939, Bruce Lancaster, Guns of Burgoyne, page 160:
      By God, I c’n hear him, see him, too. Put on that pious look, mimp up his lips.
  2. To act in an affectedly prim or dainty manner.

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