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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

SLIMMER, adj. Delicate, fragile, easily hurt, of persons. Only in Galt.Ayr. 1820 Galt Legatees iv.:
Being a gentlewoman both by blood and education, she's a very slimmer affair to handle in a doing of this kind.Ayr. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie xiv.:
Baith in shape and habit he was a slimmer piece of gentility.

[Prob. an invention of Galt based on Slim, adj., 2. and Eng. limber, lithe, lissom, easily bent, flaccid.]

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