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Definition of "limpsy" [limp•sy]

  • Limp; flexible; flimsy (adjective)

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Use "limpsy" in a sentence
  • "How she would give the little wee baby a "wish-bone," though it could not hold it one minute in its limpsy little fingers; and how she would keep on passing round nuts, and oranges, and grapes, and apples, and wonder what _had_ become of all their appetites."
  • "A little gray-haired, washed-out woman in an out-of-date, limpsy suit was wandering aimlessly around the room."
  • ""There, to be sure," said Aunt Lois, one day when our preparations were in full blast; "there comes Sam Lawson down the hill, limpsy as ever; now he'll have his doleful story to tell, and mother'll give him one of the turkeys.""
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