Funny, I always just assumed that "gimp" is the English word for German "Gimpel". Turns out, it's not. In English it's a bullfinch.

BTW that's my main use for Wikipedia, more than actually looking an article up: find the German Wikipedia page and switch to English or Swedish or whatever to find the appropriate translation of the thing or concept. Especially when a dictionary would give you dozens of translations in different fields, Wikipedia's disambiguation pages are close to perfect.