jamp

jamp

1. (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, 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:

     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, page 5:

     Jump Jamp Jumpit: He jamp ower the dyke.

• Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 390

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