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Definition of Limpsy
1. a. Limp; flexible; flimsy.
Definition of Limpsy
1. lacking strength or vigor [adj -SIER, -SIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limpsy
Literary usage of Limpsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1833 Ruther a limpsy chain, though, continued the down-easter —John Neal, ...
1833 Let a feller be all worn out and wilted down as limpsy as fly off the ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"(2) A loose lazy fellow is said to bo a limpsy rascal [Johnson]. *Lim to.
To suck [BN 3]. Line. To beat; from the implement of chastisement, a rope's end. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia by Walter Rye, Robert Forby (1895)
"(2) A loose lazy fellow is said to be a limpsy rascal [Johnson]. *Lim to.
To suck [BN 3]. Line. To beat; from the implement of chastisement, a rope's end. ..."
4. The N.Y. Weekly Digest of Cases Decided in the U.S. Supreme, Circuit, and (1885)
"... "while on the platform he seemed to be perfectly limpsy. and he seemed to be
so after that;" while on the platform "I should suppose he was standing; ..."
5. 595 Pulpit Pungencies: With a Table of Contents by Henry Ward Beecher (1866)
"... who never will stand up although you 'npty ags fill them ever so many times.
Don't you bom limpsy suppose it is a misfortune for a man to be born ..."
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