TRIM, TRIMLY, TRIMMED, TRIMMING, TRIMNESS
ADJECTIVES
► ADDRESSED arrayed, attired, trimmed, dressed → 1393 arch.
► CLASSY stylish, fine, neat, trim → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► COSH trim, neat → 1826 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DANDY of the nature of a dandy; affectedly neat, trim, or smart → 1813
► DAPPER neat, trim, smart in dress or appearance → LME
► DINK neat, nice, finely dressed, trim, spruce → 1721 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► DINKY neat, trim → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► FEAT-BODIED having a feat or trim body, neat, spruce → 1750 obs.
► NABBY neat, trim, well-dressed; pretentious, dressed above one’s station → 1879 Sc.
► NABITY neat, trim, well-dressed; pretentious, dressed above one’s station → 1903 Sc. (Bk.)
► NEAT 1. of persons: inclined to refinement or elegance; finely or elegantly dressed; trim or smart in apparel → 1546 obs.
2. of women: trim, smart → 1559 obs.
► NET of persons: trim, smart, or elegant, esp. in dress → a1300 obs.
► NUNTY precise in dress, neat, trim, dapper → 1856 Eng. dial.
► SMIRK neat, trim, spruce in dress or appearance; pleasant; agreeable; smug → 1534
► SMUDGE smart, trim → 1596 obs.
► SMUG 1. of males: trim, neat, spruce, smart; later, having a self-satisfied, conceited or consciously respectable air → 1551
2. of things: smooth, clean, neat, trim, or tidy → 1598
► SPINORTIC ► SPONORTIC neat, trim, stylish → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SPRIG smart, neat, trim; said of a person’s appearance → 1675 obs.
► TIGHT neat in appearance; neatly and carefully dressed; trim, tidy, smart; of a neat compact build, well-made, shapely → 1697 arch. or Eng. dial.
► TRIG pleasingly trim. tidy, neat → 1838 Amer. dial.
ADVERBS
► GASH trimly, neatly, so as to have a good appearance → 1806 Sc.
► JEMMILY neatly, trimly → 1837
NOUNS
► EAVESING the act of trimming the edges of anything; clipping, polling, shearing; also, what is cut off; the clippings of hair → a800 obs.
► FABALA a flounce, trimming, furbelow → c1800 Sc. obs.
► FAKEMENT a trimming, a superfluous thing → L19 sl.
► FASHERIE trouble, annoyance; fuss, unnecessary ceremony; any unnecessary ornamentation, trimming, etc. → 1727 Sc.
► FATTERALS ► FATTRALS ribbon ends, loose pieces of trimming; anything loose and trailing; rarely in singular → 1786 Sc. obs.
► FEATNESS elegance, shapeliness, spruceness, trimness → 1576
► FIXINGS trimmings → k1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GARNISH trimming for articles of dress; some particular material used for this purpose → 1527 obs.
► GARNITURE ornament, trimming, etc. added to dress → 1667
► JEMMINESS spruceness, neatness, trimness → 1756
► PAMPINATION the pruning or trimming of vines → 1398 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► NABITY a well-dressed, trim person → 1903 Sc. (Bk.)
VERBS
► DANDIFY to give the character or style of a dandy to; to make trim and smart like a dandy→ 1823 colloq.
► JAG to trim up the small branches of a tree or hedge → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KEMB to trim; to make smooth or elegant → c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LAY ON to trim, to embroider → 1563-83 obs.
► PAMPINATE to prune or trim a vine → 1745 obs.
► PAMPINE to prune or trim a vine → c1420 obs.
► SCOW to trim, to cut off ragged edges, tatters, etc. → 1880 Sc.
► TAIL to put into shape, to trim, to make ready → c1330 obs.
► DUB to trim or crop trees, hedges, etc. → a1661
► SMIRK to trim up; to make neat or spruce → 1596 obs.
► SMUDGE to make smart or trim; to deck up → 1589 obs.
► SMUG to smarten up one’s appearance, etc.; to make trim or gay → 1588
► SPRUCIFY to make neat, trim, or attractive in appearance; to smarten; to spruce up → 1611