[1935–40; colonel blimp + -ish1]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Rhodesian ridgeback, fluorocarbon, gangbuster, prime mover, roomette-ish is a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”(British; Danish; English; Spanish); “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (babyish; girlish; mulish); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” (bookish; freakish); “near or about” (fiftyish; sevenish)
Examples of 'blimpish' in a sentence
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But true or not, it nowadays seems blimpish and offensive to many people.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
It would be blimpish to suggest that building flats has done nothing to enhance northern towns and cities.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
However, its latest enterprise, a 2.2 million extension to the grandstand, has been undermined by blimpish bureaucracy.