GIMPINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gimpiness mean? 

• GIMPINESS (noun)
  The noun GIMPINESS has 1 sense:

1. disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

  Familiarity information: GIMPINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIMPINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

claudication; gameness; gimp; gimpiness; lameness; limping

Hypernyms ("gimpiness" is a kind of...):

disability of walking (a disability that interferes with or prevents walking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gimpiness"):

intermittent claudication (lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest)

Derivation:

gimpy (disabled in the feet or legs)