"mimp" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Imitative in origin.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "mimps",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1786, John Burgoyne, The Heiress. A Comedy in Five Acts, page 37:",
          "text": "Sure you muſt have obſerved the drop of the under lip is exploded ſince Lady Simpermode broke a tooth—(Sets her mouth affectedly)—I am preparing the caſt of the lips for the enſuing winter—thus—It is to be call’d the Paphian mimp.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Gil Meynier, Stranger at the Door, page 12:",
          "text": "The Paphian mimp was a certain pucker of the lips considered needful for the highly genteel.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Barry N. Schwartz, Human Connection and the New Media, page 170:",
          "text": "My working hunch was that the very young leopard frog tadpole would make a near-perfect donor. […] While he’s little, he’ll mimp-mouth algae from the flanks of a tubifex and harm nothing but a little vermigrade pride.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pursing of the lips."
      ],
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          "pursing",
          "pursing"
        ],
        [
          "lip",
          "lip"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mimp"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Imitative in origin.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "mimps",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mimping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mimped",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mimped",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1755, H. Woodward, The Comic Tunes and Songs in the Entertainment Call’d Proteus, or Harlequin in China:",
          "text": "The Beaux alter’d Creatures,\nNow mimp up their Features,\nAnd trip it, and trip it ſo pretty; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1788, Elizabeth Hervey, Melissa and Marcia; or the Sisters: a novel, volume 1, pages 61–62:",
          "text": "When firſt ſhe emerged from retirement, it was natural ſhe ſhould feel ſhy and embarraſſed, which always appeared by a certain mimping with her mouth; afterwards ſhe thought it becoming , and improved upon it: It was ſo univerſally adopted by the young Ladies of the ton, that I think it incumbent on myſelf to give a particular account of this grace for the benefit of thoſe who have no opportunities of ſeeing it practiſed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Bruce Lancaster, Guns of Burgoyne, page 160:",
          "text": "By God, I c’n hear him, see him, too. Put on that pious look, mimp up his lips.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To purse one’s lips."
      ],
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          "lip"
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      "glosses": [
        "To act in an affectedly prim or dainty manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-mimp-en-verb-m5AnEmTI",
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        [
          "affectedly",
          "affectedly"
        ],
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          "prim",
          "prim"
        ],
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          "dainty",
          "dainty"
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  "word": "mimp"
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  "etymology_text": "Imitative in origin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mimps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1786, John Burgoyne, The Heiress. A Comedy in Five Acts, page 37:",
          "text": "Sure you muſt have obſerved the drop of the under lip is exploded ſince Lady Simpermode broke a tooth—(Sets her mouth affectedly)—I am preparing the caſt of the lips for the enſuing winter—thus—It is to be call’d the Paphian mimp.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Gil Meynier, Stranger at the Door, page 12:",
          "text": "The Paphian mimp was a certain pucker of the lips considered needful for the highly genteel.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Barry N. Schwartz, Human Connection and the New Media, page 170:",
          "text": "My working hunch was that the very young leopard frog tadpole would make a near-perfect donor. […] While he’s little, he’ll mimp-mouth algae from the flanks of a tubifex and harm nothing but a little vermigrade pride.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pursing of the lips."
      ],
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        [
          "pursing",
          "pursing"
        ],
        [
          "lip",
          "lip"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mimp"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Imitative in origin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mimps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mimping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mimped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "mimped",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1755, H. Woodward, The Comic Tunes and Songs in the Entertainment Call’d Proteus, or Harlequin in China:",
          "text": "The Beaux alter’d Creatures,\nNow mimp up their Features,\nAnd trip it, and trip it ſo pretty; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1788, Elizabeth Hervey, Melissa and Marcia; or the Sisters: a novel, volume 1, pages 61–62:",
          "text": "When firſt ſhe emerged from retirement, it was natural ſhe ſhould feel ſhy and embarraſſed, which always appeared by a certain mimping with her mouth; afterwards ſhe thought it becoming , and improved upon it: It was ſo univerſally adopted by the young Ladies of the ton, that I think it incumbent on myſelf to give a particular account of this grace for the benefit of thoſe who have no opportunities of ſeeing it practiſed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Bruce Lancaster, Guns of Burgoyne, page 160:",
          "text": "By God, I c’n hear him, see him, too. Put on that pious look, mimp up his lips.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To purse one’s lips."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "purse",
          "purse"
        ],
        [
          "lip",
          "lip"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To act in an affectedly prim or dainty manner."
      ],
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        [
          "affectedly",
          "affectedly"
        ],
        [
          "prim",
          "prim"
        ],
        [
          "dainty",
          "dainty"
        ]
      ]
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}