jimpy

English

Etymology 1

From jimp +‎ -y.

Adjective

jimpy (comparative more jimpy, superlative most jimpy)

1. Neat, jimp.
   • 1911, D. M. Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎^[1], HTML edition (Biography), The Gutenberg Project, published 2007:

     […] though more than a hundred folk sitting in his company had beheld him dauting her with his arm round her jimpy waist, not five minutes before.

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, jimp

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

jimpy (uncountable)

1. (biology) A sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in males.
   • 1973, Norbert N. Herschkowitz, Chapter 4: Genetic Disorders of Brain Development: Animal Models, Gerald E. Gaull (editor), Biology of Brain Dysfunction: Volume 2,, Plenum Press, page 172,

     When cerebellar tissues from normal and Jimpy are grown on the same slide in a common medium, no mutual effects can be observed: the Jimpy does not myelinate, and the normal does not stop myelination.

   • 1999, Klaus-Armin Nave, Chapter 2: X-Linked Dysmyelination: Mouse Models of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, Brian Popko (editor), Mouse Models in the Study of Genetic Neurological Disorders, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, page 29,

     The jimpy phenotype is marked by a CNS-specific dysmyelination and has provided an authentic animal model for PMD (Sidman et al., 1964). Typically, 50% of the male progeny of jimpy carrier females are affected, whereas the heterozygous carrier female itself is unaffected.

Adjective

jimpy (not comparable)

1. (biology) Of, pertaining to, carrying or affected by the mutation.

Etymology 3

Noun

jimpy (plural jimpies)

1. (military, slang) A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG).
   • 1985 [Hodder and Stoughton], Terence Strong, Conflict of Lions, 2014, Silver Fox Press, unnumbered page,

     Before they had come to a standstill, the protective cover had come off the the powerful twin GPMG ‘jimpies’ mounted in the rear compartment by the laconic Australian, Corporal Kangers Webster.

   • 2013, Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken by War, Mainstream Publishing, unnumbered page,

     Immediately to his right was our very latest addition to the hill, Frank, on one of the Jimpies. To his right, leaning against the wall with his sniper rifle, was Caz.