Noah Webster
Flimsy
FLIM'SY, adjective s as z. [The word is retained by the common people in New England in limsy, weak, limber, easily bending.]
1. Weak; feeble; slight; vain; without strength or solid substance; as a flimsy pretext; a flimsy excuse; flimsy objections.
2. Without strength or force; spiritless.
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines.
3. Thin; of loose texture; as flimsy cloth or stuff. [Little Used.]