Citations:gimp

Adjective

 * 1)  Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.
 * 2) * 15??, King James V, Christ's Kirk on the Green, collected in Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems, page 1; alternate source, with footnote regarding gimp
 * Of all these maidens mild as mead, / was none so gimp as Gillie,
 * 1) * 1706, Robert Mylne, A Song on the Treaty of Union, collected in A Book of Scotish Pasquils by James Maidment, page 367
 * Now, the Lord bless the gimp one-and-thirty, / If they prove not Traytors in fact;
 * 1) * 1719 (?), Elizabeth Wardlaw (?), Hardyknute, collected in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by Thomas Percy, page 815
 * Her girdle shaw'd her middle gimp, / And gowden glist her hair.
 * 1) * 17??, Traditional, Clerk Colvill, collected by Francis James Child in Child's Collected Ballads, (#42), Google Books
 * A belt about her middle gimp, / Which cost Clark Colven crowns fifteen:
 * 1) * c. 1783, Traditional, The Lass of Roch Royal, collected by Francis James Child in Child's Collected Ballads, (#76), Google Books
 * An wha will lace my middle gimp / Wi the new made London ban?
 * 1) * 1826, Jane & Anna Maria Porter, Tales Round a Winter Hearth, page 57
 * Often were they heard boasting her "sma' gimp waist..."
 * 1) * 1878, James Logie Robertson, Poems, "A Ballad", page 105
 * 'Tis she! The very face appears; / The form sae gimp and genty; / The maid I left o' twenty years / Is still a maid o' twenty!