blimpish

Variant of blimp

noun

  1. a nonrigid or semirigid airship
  2. Origin: after Col. Blimp, creation of Sir David Low

    a pompous, smug, highly conservative person

Origin: echoic of sound caused by thumping the airship bag with a finger: prob. coined (1915) by A. D. Cunningham, Brit Navy Air Force

Related Forms:

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
link/cite print suggestion box