jamp
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Verb[edit]
jamp
- (Scotland, Northern England) simple past and past participle of jump
- 1857 July 7, J.B.Russell, Notes and Queries (2), volume 4, number 80, Oxford University Press, page 26:
- Plunge in wi' glim, glam; The cat jamp ower the mill-dam.
- 1872, Matthew Richley, History and characteristics of Bishop Auckland[1], page 49:
- Peter Fair let off his hare; Squire Downs set off his hounds; Bobby Mills jamp ower the hills, And Bobby Pow cried hulloow hulloow; Whilst famed Lowe Hall bet them all.
- 1898, Bryham Kirkby, Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as Used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with Illustrative Sentences in the North Westmorland Dialect[2]:
- Ther's a lal bit gully 'at we jamp ower
- There's a little gully that we jumped over.
- 1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes (quoting Irene Sutcliffe), page 111:
- Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon,
When Jinny jamp oop, and ganned nimming alang
- 1982, Mary Murray, In My Ain Words An East Neuk Vocabulary[3], page 5:
- Jump Jamp Jumpit: He jamp ower the dyke.
References[edit]
- Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary[4], volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 390