Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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JUMP, v. Sc. usages. For Sc. forms see Jimp, v.1
1. Gen. as vbl.n. or ppl.adj. in combs.: (1) jumpin-bane, = (2) (Ork.5 1959); (2) jumpin'-jack, -jake, -jeck, -jock, a child's toy made from the wishbone of a fowl (see Rxb. 1825 quot.) (Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl., jump jack; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., -jack, -jock; Abd. 1959, -jeck); also fig. Now used as in Eng. of a dancing doll manipulated by strings; (3) jumpin'-on-lid, a lid with a rim which fits over the outside of a vessel (Abd. 1825 Jam.); (4) jumpin' rape, -rope, a skipping rope (Abd., Kcd., Ags., m.Lth., wm.Sc., Rxb. 1959). Cf. U.S. jump(ing) rope, id.; skipping. (5) jumping switch, in mining: a self-acting switch, the hutch jumping through a small vertical distance (Sc. 1944 List Mining Terms per Edb.6); (6) jumpin' tow(e) = (4) (Mearns 1880 Jam.: Rxb. 1927 E. C. Smith Braid Haaick 12, Rxb. 1959).
(7) Phr.: jump the dyke, To defect, become a turncoat. (Ags., Gsw., Ayr. 2000s).(2) Peb. 1793 R. Brown Carlop Green (1817) 131:
And cheepan' birds, and jumpan' jacks, And ba's and bools that stott.Rxb. 1825 Jam.:
Jumpin' Jock . . . the merry-thought of a fowl, made into a play-thing for children, by means of a double cord or thread passed through two holes, bored near the extremity of the limbs, betwixt which a short piece of stick is put, and twisted round till it gains a spring. A piece of shoemaker's wax is then stuck in the centre of the bow, to which the point of the stick is pressed until it adheres; and when placed on a table near a fire, the elasticity, by degrees, overcoming the adhesive quality of the wax, causes it suddenly to spring up.Abd. 1845 T. Denham Poems, etc. 184:
Ye curst play-actor, jumping-jack.Sc. 1884 Henley & Stevenson Deacon Brodie (1892) ii. v. 50:
He was my butt, my ape, my jumping-jack.Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) xiii.:
Look at thae jumpin'-jecks o' craturs [golfers] wi' their reed jeckets on . . . rinnin' aboot wi' their bits o' sticks, wallopin' awa' at Indeen-rubber ba's.Ork. 1908 Old-Lore Misc. I. viii. 318:
Sheu waas made tae geong wappan aboot like a jumpan jeck bae pooan the string.wm.Sc. a.1930 N. Munro Looker-on (1933) 181:
Every kind of toy you could imagine . . . jumping-jacks, dolls, peeries . . . tow-guns, and Jack-in-the-boxes.(4) Rnf. 1805 G. McIndoe Poems 40:
At three years auld he crys for whips, . . . And guns, and girrs, and jumpin'-rapes.Lth. 1885 J. Strathesk Blinkbonny 33:
The "lassies' games" were skipping on the "jumpin'-rope", the "House-ba'".Gsw. 1985 Anna Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's 161:
Oh aye, I see the weans doin' their jumpin'-ropes funny, and playin' wi' clever dollies that greet and wet their hippin's ... wm.Sc. 1989 William McIlvanney Walking Wounded 46:
There had been talk of how times had changed for all of them, how rope had at one time meant not the boring duty of hanging out washing but the carefree pleasure of jumping rope. (7) Gsw. 1998 Glaswegian 14 May :
Anyone planning to defect to the SNP must jump the dyke within the next few days. Council elections are in May 1999-and the party stipulates that candidates must be Nats of at least one year's standing.
2. To split, give way (n.Sc. 1825 Jam.), used of a garment which has been made or has become too tight.
