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ˈpig-jump, v. app. orig. Australian slang. [f. pig n.1 + jump v.] intr. To jump in a frolicsome way from all four legs, without bringing them together as in buck-jumping. Hence ˈpig-jump n., a jump from all four legs without bringing them together; ˈpig-jumper, a horse which pig-jumps.
1892Daily News 7 May 5/4 The vice of some of these pig⁓jumpers and buckers in the arena is very directly a matter of original sin. 1893Mrs. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawm. I. xi. 241, I don't mind what I sit, short of a regular buck-jumper. I can even manage a little mild pig-jumping. Ibid. 242 This horse won't even pig-jump. 1928Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v. Pig n., Pig-jump, n. 1929K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 51 Up and down it the colt went, slewing, rooting, pig-jumping. 1943‘W. Hatfield’ I find Austral. iv. 52 Sending it [sc. a mule] away in a series of flying pig-jumps while Tim felt for his off stirrup. Ibid. xvi. 213 We'll see what you can do on this pig-jumper of ours. |