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▪ I. ˈpimping, a.
[Of uncertain origin; dialectally pimpy is found in same sense. Cf. pimp n.2, and Cornish dial. pimpey weak watery cider; also Du. pimpel weak little man, Ger. pimpelig effeminate, sickly, puling, which imply a stem pimp.]
Small, trifling, insignificant, peddling, paltry, petty, mean; in poor health or condition, sickly.
1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 77 Out of a little pimping corner of Britain. a1704― Charac. Dutch Women Wks. 1711 IV. 315, I am quarter'd in a little pimping Village on the Frontier of Flanders. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy v. i, To go sneaking on at this pitiful,—pimping,—pettifogging rate. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 27 Apr. an. 1775 This pimping patch of two acres and a quarter. 1824Lamb Lett. (1837) II. 166 She writes such a pimping, mean, detestable hand. 1845S. Judd Margaret iv, ‘Was I so little?’ asked Margaret. ‘Yes, and pimpin' enough.’ 1878Print. Trades Jrnl. xxv. 23 If the narrow, pimping fractions in general use had been retained. [See also Eng. Dial. Dict.]
▪ II. pimping, vbl. n.1 and ppl. a.
see pimp v.
▪ III. pimping, vbl. n.2 local.
[f. pimp n.2 + -ing1.]
The preparation of bundles of firewood. (In quot. comb.)
1930V. Sackville-West Edwardians vi. 251 He looked into the pimping-shed, where old Turnour was chopping faggots. |