| 释义 |
limpsy, a. dial. and U.S.|ˈlɪmpsɪ|
Also -sey.
[f. limp a. For the ending, see flimsy.]
Limp.
a1825[see limp a. 1]. 1865E. Burritt Walk Land's End viii. 284 That child..makes two steps forward before its limpsy body loses its balance. 1868Whitman Sel. Poems 119 The death-howl, the limpsey tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither. 1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Folks xlviii. (1870) 525 She..looked sort o' limpsy, as if there wa'n't no starch left in her. |