Simp vs. Gimp — What's the Difference?

A simple or foolish person.

Twisted silk, worsted, or cotton with cord or wire running through it, used chiefly as upholstery trimming.

(slang) A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.

Fishing line made of silk bound with wire.

Someone who is not worthy of respect.

A physically disabled or lame person.

(slang) A man who foolishly overvalues and defers to a woman, putting her on a pedestal.

A feeble or contemptible person.

Someone who foolishly overvalues someone else and defers to them, putting them on a pedestal.

Limp; hobble

(slang) An advocate for an ideology or cause.

A narrow flat braid or rounded cord of fabric used for trimming. Also called guimpe, guipure.

To be especially deferential to and emotionally vulnerable with a woman, often with the intent of receiving sexual gratification.

A limp or a limping gait.

To obsequiously praise or admire.

Often Offensive A person who limps.

To reminisce melancholically; to recall once fond memories now tinged with sadness, especially regarding a former lover.

Spirit; pep.

Abbreviation of simplified

To walk with a limp.

A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.

Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.

The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.

Gumption

(informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.

(informal) A crippled leg.

(informal) A limp or a limping gait.

A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar

(BDSM) A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia.

A character or ability that is underpowered.

(of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.

(dated) To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.

To limp; to hobble.

To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.

Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

Smart; spruce; trim; nice.

A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; - used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.

To notch; to indent; to jag.

Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet