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Definition of Gimpy
1. Adjective. Disabled in the feet or legs. "A game leg"
Similar to: Unfit
Derivative terms: Gameness, Gimpiness, Lameness
Definition of Gimpy
1. Adjective. limping, lame, with crippled legs. ¹
2. Adjective. exhibiting deficiencies associated with the derogatory term "gimp", such as might inspire discomfort or revulsion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gimpy
1. limping [adj GIMPIER, GIMPIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gimpy
Literary usage of Gimpy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Children of the Tenements by Jacob August Riis (1904)
"Two of the boys, « gimpy " and Lem, were conferring aside in an undertone.
Presently gimpy, who limped, as his name indicated, spoke up. ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"gimpy Sprightly, active; as, "a gimpy horse." Forby notices the adjective gimp,
meaning nice, spruce, as provincial in England. Gin and Tidy. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... tr. of Anacreon's Odes, xxviii. gimpy (jim'pi), a. [Cf. gimp1, jimp.] Sprightly;
active : as, a gimpy horse. ..."
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