- (especially North American English)
a small airship (= an aircraft without wings) 软式飞艇 - (also Colonel Blimp)(British English, old-fashioned, disapproving)
an older person, especially an old army officer, with very old-fashioned political opinions 政见保守的老人（尤指年长的军官）
Word OriginFirst World War (in sense (1)): of uncertain origin. Sense (2) derives from the character invented by cartoonist David Low, used in anti-German or anti-government drawings before and during the Second World War.