blimp, sausage balloon, sausage
(noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
Source: WordNet® 3.1
From the cartoon character Colonel Blimp, created by Sir David Low (1891â1963).
Blimp (plural Blimps)
A military middle class Englishman intolerant of othersâ ideas.
Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A.D. Conningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence âblimpâ. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the âEtymology of âBlimpââ, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that
âthere was no American âA-classâ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with âAâ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as âlimpâ. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.â
blimp (plural blimps)
An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
(by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
(slang) An obese person.
A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
• barrage balloon
• Gossage
blimp (third-person singular simple present blimps, present participle blimping, simple past and past participle blimped)
(slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
• blimp out
• blimp up
Source: Wiktionary
23 January 2025
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