noun
- a flat trimming of silk, wool, or other cord, sometimes stiffened with wire, for garments, curtains, etc.
- a coarse thread, usually glazed, employed in lacemaking to outline designs.
noun Chiefly Northeastern U.S.
- spirit, vigor, or ambition.
noun
- a limp.
- Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who limps or is lame.
verb (used without object)
- to limp; walk in a halting manner: a sprain that made her gimp for weeks.
adjective Scot. and North England.
- jimp.
adjective Scot. and North England.
- slender; trim; delicate.
- scant; barely sufficient.
noun
- a tapelike trimming of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with wire
noun
- US and Canadian offensive, slang a physically disabled person, esp one who is lame
- slang a sexual fetishist who likes to be dominated and who dresses in a leather or rubber body suit with mask, zips, and chains
1925, “a crippled leg,” also “a crippled person,” perhaps by association with limp, or a corruption of gammy (see game (adj.)).
also gymp, ornamental material for trimming dresses, furniture, etc., 1660s, from French guimpe, Old French guimple “wimple, headdress, veil,” from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German wimpal).