a. dial. and U.S. Also -sey. [f. LIMP a. For the ending, see FLIMSY.] Limp.
a. 1825. [see LIMP a. 1].
1865. E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, viii. 284. That child … makes two steps forward before its limpsy body loses its balance.
1868. Whitman, Sel. Poems, 119. The death-howl, the limpsey tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither.
1869. Mrs. Stowe, Oldtown Folks, xlviii. (1870), 525. She … looked sort o’ limpsy, as if there wa’n’t no starch left in her.
