jumpern.1
/ˈdʒʌmpə/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmpər/ One who or that which jumps.
1.
a. A person or animal that jumps or leaps.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > one who or that which
leaperc1325
loper1483
vaulter1552
gamboller1587
springer1609
jumper1611
kangaroo1865
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > leap > horse that leaps or prances
prancer?1566
curvetter1678
leaper1774
jumper1886
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sautier, a leaper, iumper, skipper.
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 15 Almost as great a jumper as himself.
1886 A. Coventry & A. E. T. Watson Steeple-chasing in Earl of Suffolk et al. Racing & Steeple-chasing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 308 However much a horse may answer to the description of a 'natural jumper', he has to learn to be clever.
b. A ticket-inspector or ticket-collector. slang.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > public transport employees > ticket inspector or collector
jumper1900
1900 Westm. Gaz. 4 May 8/2 The..duties of the ‘'bus-jumper’—the ghostlike functionary who appears on the top of a 'bus and demands a sight of your ticket.
1906 Daily Chron. 24 July 3/7 It was not a fact that unless the ‘jumpers’—travelling ticket inspectors—made a certain number of reports they were discharged.
1931 Evening Express (Aberdeen) 4 Apr. It is not at all uncommon for a ‘jumper’ to find that fifty per cent. of the occupants of a second class compartment have only third class tickets.
1937 Daily Express 21 Jan. 3/4 If you use a second [class carriage] with a ‘third’ ticket, watch for the ‘jumpers’, ready to pounce and demand excess.
1966 H. Sheppard Dict. Railway Slang (ed. 2) 7 Jumper, travelling ticket collector.
c. A fraudulently plural voter. U.S. slang.
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1903 N.Y. Tribune 27 Oct. There are more ‘jumpers’ than there were two years ago. These ‘jumpers’ vote in widely separated parts of the city.
d. One who quits a job. U.S.
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a1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories ii. 33 Silver Jack..took one of the ‘jumpers’ in the cutter with him.
e. Basketball. A jump-ball or jump-shot; a player of such a ball or shot.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > [noun] > types of shot or ball
free throw1888
foul shot1902
jump shot1909
jump ball1924
pop shot1933
jumper1937
set shot1940
lay-up1948
fallaway1949
bonus1955
hook-shot1957
sky-hook1959
buzzer beater1965
brick1971
spot-up1992
1937 F. C. Allen Better Basketball ii. xiii. 182 Any jumper must keep his eyes fixed upon the ball until it is tapped. He must always play the ball and not the other jumper.
1937 F. C. Allen Better Basketball ii. xiii. 188 Many jumpers are taught illegally to jump sooner than their opponent in order to get above him.
1958 F. McGuire Offensive Basketball ii. 75 Getting possession of the ball depends upon a number of items which are more or less related. First comes the leaping and timing ability of the jumper.
1958 F. McGuire Offensive Basketball ii. 112 The two-hand overhead jump shot is made in the same manner as the one-hand jumper except that the ball is carried above the head instead of over the shoulder.
1969 Z. Hollander Mod. Encycl. Basketball 121/2 Lucus..could also score on jumpers from the corner.
1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 3D/4 The Vikings took the lead on Snider's free throw with 46 seconds left, but Steve Halberg hit a 15-foot jumper to put the Irish back on top and North couldn't come up with an equalizer.
2.
a. A name applied to the members of a body of Methodists which arose in Wales about the middle of the eighteenth century, who used to jump and dance as a part of religious worship; applied also to more recent sects following similar practices.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > Methodist sects and groups > [noun] > jumperism > person
jumper1774
1774 in Sidney Rowl. Hill (1834) 101 Nothing..made him so angry as the enthusiasm of the jumpers, whom he called the caricaturists of religion.
1802 Public Characters 552 The Jumpers in Wales have started up as a sect within the last half century.
1852 M. W. Savage Reuben Medlicott iii. xii Jenny [was] a Welshwoman; her rude forefathers were goat-herds on week-days, and Jumpers on Sundays.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) The Walworth Jumpers.
b. A convert from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism. Irish English.
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1906 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Irish Yesterdays 75 The cook had called her a ‘jumper’ (i.e. a pervert to Protestantism).
3.
a. An animal, esp. an insect (as a flea) or insect-larva, characterized by jumping: cf. hopper n.1 2.
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the world > animals > by locomotion > [noun] > that leaps or jumps
hoppera1325
jumper1771
leaper1796
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Siphonaptera or fleas > [noun] > member of (flea)
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lop1480
night-eater1626
jumper1771
bed-flea1774
siphonapteran1842
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by movement > that hops or jumps
hoppera1325
jumper1771
1771 G. White Let. 30 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 90 These eggs produce maggots called jumpers.
1785 Gentleman's Mag. 55 i. 265 A very remarkable little animal... It is the Mus Jaculus or Sauteur; and in English may be called the Jumper.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 391 The Jumpers or the Anisopoda.
b. In full, jumper ant. An Australian ant of the genus Myrmecia.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Myrmecia (bull-ant)
bulldog1853
bull-ant1900
jumper1907
1907 W. W. Froggatt Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) 92 The ‘Jumper’, Myrmecia albo-cincta..is one of the smaller species, about ½ an inch in length.
1907 W. W. Froggatt Austral. Insects Index 436/2 Jumper ant.
1926 R. J. Tillyard Insects Austral. & N.Z. xxii. 287 The genus Myrmecia..contains the huge Bull-dog Ants and the smaller Jumpers..which swarm out of their nests and advance to the attack in a series of jumps or springs.
1970 E. F. Reek in Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) xxxvii. 956/1 Forms such as the bulldog or jumper ants..feed largely on nectar and honey-dew as adults.
4. One who jumps a claim. See jump v. 9b.
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the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun] > of land > summary > one who
claim-jumper1839
jumper1855
lot jumper1868
1855 F. S. Marryat Mountains & Molehills 240 My claim being carefully measured..and found to be correct, the ‘jumper’ would be ordered to confine himself to his own territory.
1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody vii. 86 Bob, the hero who saved the Baby Mine from the jumpers for us.
5.
a. One who causes to jump, in quot. 1842, a flogger.
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1842 J. W. Orderson Creoleana ix. 96 This..brute..ordered the unhappy Rachael into the hands of the ‘Jumper’.
b. Contract Bridge. One who increases a bid by one more than is necessary.
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1929 M. C. Work Compl. Contract Bridge iv. 35 The jumper needs more strength than when an original bid is made by North or East.
6. Applied to various tools or contrivances having a jumping motion.
a. Quarrying. A heavy drill worked either by hand or by means of a hammer, used in making blasting-holes in rock, etc. Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > other drills
jumper1769
screw drill1821
stop-drill1843
hand drill1845
Swiss drill1846
traverse-drill1853
crown borer1854
pin drill1858
foot drill1860
perforator1861
pin-bit1873
Archimedean drill1889
paddy1895
stope drill1908
stem1914
screw gun1945
1769 Trinity-House Bks.: Tinmouth Low-lights 21 June in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) II. 586 Eye-bolts fixed in holes bored [in stones] with a jumper.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Jumper, a miner's augur, used in making holes for the reception of gun-powder, for blasting or blowing up rocks.
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 198 The miner holds the jumper in both hands, raises it, and lets it fall in the hole, turning it continually.
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 198 When the stone is of a very hard description, it is usual to pour water occasionally into the jumper-hole.
b. A spring or click controlling the starwheel of a repeating clock.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
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Jack1498
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work1570
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Jack of the clock1581
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pointer1596
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remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
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scape1798
star-wheel1798
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recoiling escapement1805
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renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
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pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. xcii. 125 The thing called the jumper..will..drive the ray still farther forward... The jumper also acts as a click to keep the star wheel steady.
1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 112 The pin in moving the star wheel presses back the click or ‘jumper’.
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c. A form of plough-share for rough soil, or for soil filled with roots (U.S.).
d. A wire used to cut out an electric instrument or part of a circuit, or to close temporarily a gap in a circuit.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > affecting circuit
jumper1901
1901 in N.E.D.
1906 T. E. Herbert Telegraphy xviii. 586 When any cross is necessary, the cross-connecting or ‘jumper’ wires between the vertical and horizontal sides of the frame are altered, so avoiding the necessity for disturbing the cabling.
1931 J. A. Moyer & J. F. Wostrel Radio Handbk. xi. 560 A temporary jumper may be used to close the circuit.
1948 Aircraft Power Plants (Northrop Aeronaut. Inst.) ix. 216/2 Test the switch by placing heavy jumpers across the terminals. In other words, close the circuit through the switch with temporary conductors.
1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 282/3 The mode selector..includes a ‘battery’ position that enables checking the condition of the battery without removing it or connecting jumpers.
1972 G. H. Reed Refrigeration xiii. 120 A single wire ‘jumper’ lead..is useful both for by-passing faulty controls or for incorporating a capacitor in the test cord.
e. Iron forging. (See quot.)
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1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Jumper..(1) A smith's hammer..used for dealing blows against the ends of rods laid horizontally for the purpose of jumping them up... (2) The sparks or scintillations which fly off from molten iron in the ladle are also termed jumpers.
f. Masonry. = through-stone n.2
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick
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coping-stone1778
slocking-stone1778
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through-stone1797
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core1823
keystone1823
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stretching-stone1833
header brick1841
coign1843
pawl-stone1844
bay-stone1845
bonder1845
pillar-stone1854
bond-piece1862
stretcher-brick1867
toothing-stone1875
bond-stone1879
pierpoint1891
jumper1904
tush1905
padstone1944
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 328/1
7. North American. A rough kind of sledge: see quot. 1893.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun]
car1488
harrow15..
trail1570
sladea1585
slidec1692
carriole1761
carryall1797
trail-cart1803
jumper1823
toboggan1829
konaki1914
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. x. 143 They frequently make these jumpers to convey their game home.
1834 J. Langton Let. 2 Feb. in Early Days Upper Canada (1926) 81 A jumper..is a most admirable conveyance and most properly called a jumper... It sticks at nothing; wherever the horses can scramble the jumper can leap after them.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 81 A jumper,..the roughest form of a sledge, consisting of two saplings with the ends turned up, fastened by cross-pieces.
1895 J. McDougall Forest, Lake, & Prairie iii. 29 Then, in winter, with our little white pony and jumper, which my father had made, we would take the same trips.
1898 R. A. Guild in New Eng. Mag. June 455/1 My pulse quickens as I recall the glorious times with our ‘jumper’, and the hair-breadth escapes from posts and barberry bushes, in our swift descent upon the ice.
1902 A. C. Laut Story of Trapper xv. 221 The rutted marks of a ‘jumper’ sleigh cut the hard crust.
1903 B. W. Carr-Harris White Chief of Ottawa 119 They had not gone far when the Indian drew their attention to the tracks of a jumper in the snow.
1941 Beaver June 28 We loaded twelve hundred pounds of freight into a canoe, besides the dogs and a jumper sleigh.
1964 E. C. Guillet Pioneer Days Upper Canada 74 Early settlers from the vicinity of Meaford and Owen Sound brought their grists in home-made sleighs called jumpers, which were hauled by oxen.
8. Nautical.
a. A preventer-rope made fast so as to prevent a yard, mast, etc. from jumping or springing up in rough weather. Also attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > preventer or kicking-strap
preventera1625
jumper1856
kicking-strap1861
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. viii. 87 By a complication of purchases, jumpers, and shoves, we started the brig.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 30 Topping lift for spritsail gaff and jumper.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 51 The jumper is rove through a clump block on the cutwater, and is set up with a purchase in the head.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 10/2 These enable it [the compass] to be hoisted aloft on to the jumper stay, and it is in this way removed from all influences of the magnetism..caused by the ship's iron.
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b. jolly jumpers n. sails above the moon-rakers (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
9. Aeronautics. A practice machine which is able to rise a few feet from the ground.
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1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms
Derivatives
ˈjumperism n. the principles of the Jumpers.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > Methodist sects and groups > [noun] > jumperism
jumperism1800
1800 J. Whitaker Let. in R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. (1826) II. 524 On Methodistical Jumpers or Jumperism.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 64 Whether Jumperism is ceasing to merit its distinctive appellation, I cannot..say.
ˈjumpery n. practice or action of jumping; humorously applied to a dance.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun]
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springing?1530
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salture1656
saliency1664
salitiona1682
upleaping1867
jumpery1882
1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men I. vi. 143 Such dances as the bolero, the tarantella, and other national jumperies.
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jumpern.2
/ˈdʒʌmpə/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmpər/ 1. A kind of loose outer jacket or shirt reaching to the hips, made of canvas, serge, coarse linen, etc., and worn by sailors, truckmen, etc.; (also) any upper garment of similar shape, e.g. a hooded fur jacket worn by the Inuit.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > other
kirtlec893
viteroke?c1225
bleauntc1314
surcoata1330
paltock1353
courtepy1362
tunicle1377
gipona1387
juponc1400
petticoatc1425
wardecorpsc1440
placard1483
galbart1488
corsletc1500
truss1563
gippo1617
juste-au-corps1656
fore-belly1663
vest1666
justicoat1669
coat1670
amiculum1722
arba kanfot1738
slip1762
hap-warm1773
aba1792
Moldave1800
abaya1810
saya1811
tzitzit1816
cote-hardie1834
tobe1835
yelek1836
panties1845
cyclas1846
exomis1850
himation1850
jumper1853
blouse1861
peplum1866
exomion1875
confection1885
lammy1886
surquayne1887
bluey1888
fatigue-blouse1890
sling-jacket1900
top1902
sun top1934
sillapak1942
tank top1949
ao dai1961
tank1985
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. vi. 45 The most popular article of attire was the karah, a ‘jumper’ or close jacket, slipping on like a shirt, and hooded like the cowl of a Franciscan monk.
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 255 A loose coarse canvas frock, which, in colonial phrase, is called a ‘jumper’.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 80 1 set of jumper and trousers for dirty work.
1879 Unif. Reg. in Navy List (1882) July 496/2 On the blue frock or jumper the badge is to be of red cloth.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 87 I had a warm jumper over my cotton shirt.
2. A type of strait-jacket.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > straitjacket
strait waistcoat1753
strait jacket1814
jacket1853
jumper1894
1894 Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 5/6 Witnesses..deposed that the ‘jumper’, a sort of sack used for purposes similar to that of the strait waistcoat, was in constant use in the workhouse.
3.
a. = jersey n.1 3a; (also) a loose-fitting blouse worn over a skirt.In quots. 19082 and1968 (usually in plural) = romper n. 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jumper or jersey
jersey1837
sweater1882
jumper1908
pullover1913
maillot1948
pully1967
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice > blouse > types of
jerkinetc1686
shell1802
shirt1840
Garibaldi1862
shirt-bodice1868
Norfolk blouse1869
shirtwaist1871
shirt-blouse1876
guimpe1889
overblouse1889
middy1894
blouse coat1898
pneumonia blouse1902
jumper1908
kimono blouse1908
sailor top1913
buba1937
1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 1149/4 The jumper is made in surplice effect.
1908 Dial. Notes 3 326 Jumpers, a one-piece garment for children to play in, ‘rompers’.
1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 7/6 One-piece & jumper styles.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 15/2 For smaller girls the jumper still holds its own.
1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 15 Very effective is the little silk jumper-blouse.
1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son i. 13 The modiste had received a consignment of silk ‘jumpers’. She was unpacking them and hanging them up on the stands in her showroom where they glowed brilliantly like jewels in a case.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. ix. 181 He came on Anne herself, without a hat, sitting on a gate, her hands in the pockets of her jumper.
1930 Notes & Queries 14 June 431/1 Some five years ago the fashion-mongers gave the name of jumper to the knitted blouses ladies had been wearing under the name of sports coats.
1945 Wales IV. vi. 44 He turned up the cuff of his jumper and showed her the word ‘Sue’ tattooed with a border of foliage on his forearm.
1965 Australian 13 Apr. 5 She also prefers casual clothes like the jumper and skirt she is wearing here.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 61 Jump-suit. This is an abbreviation of ‘jumpers’, another name for rompers (i.e. top and bloomers in one) worn by children.
b. U.S. = jumper dress n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > pinafore dress
slip1690
pinny1850
pinafore dress1895
pinafore frock1899
jumper suit1908
jumper dress1939
pinarette1951
jumper1967
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 16 Apr. (Mag.) 6/1 (advt.) Wear as a jumper over blouses.
1971 New Yorker 11 Dec. 3 (advt.) Wear a jumper to dinner!
Compounds
C1. Instrumental.
jumper-clad adj.
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1865 F. H. Nixon Peter Perfume 172 The jumper-clad diggers so rowdy and free.
C2.
jumper dress n. a pinafore dress; see sense 3b.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > pinafore dress
slip1690
pinny1850
pinafore dress1895
pinafore frock1899
jumper suit1908
jumper dress1939
pinarette1951
jumper1967
1939 M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 84/3 Jumper-dress, sleeveless, one-piece garment worn with guimpe.
jumper suit n. (a) a pinafore dress; (b) a woman's suit consisting of a jumper and skirt made of the same material, frequently wool.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > pinafore dress
slip1690
pinny1850
pinafore dress1895
pinafore frock1899
jumper suit1908
jumper dress1939
pinarette1951
jumper1967
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other
ensemble1802
Bloomer costume1851
coat and skirt1895
blouse suit1905
jumper suit1908
suit dress1917
tailleur1923
twin set1937
salwar-kameez1955
co-ordinates1959
theatre suit1964
trikini1967
1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 1149/1 An unusually pretty jumper suit made of soft striped taffeta silk.
1925 Times 29 Dec. 7/6 Sports stockinette jumper suits.
1930 Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 9/3 Jumper-suits of jersey and stockinette.
1931 E. Raymond Mary Leith iii. ii. 225 Mary was in a jumper suit of primrose silk.
1973 Country Life 2 Aug. 335/2 Soft jumper-suits in fine printed wools.
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† jumperv.1
Obsolete.
transitive. To introduce incongruously or discordantly; to jumble together.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble
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jumble1542
hotchpotch1573
shuffle1593
pell-mell1606
chequerc1632
hash1654
hodge-podge1773
check1790
gallimaufry1831
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c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 988 (1037) Ne Iompre [v.r. iumpere] ek no discordaunt þing y-fere, As þus to vsen termes of Phisyk.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv Howe shulde than a frenche man borne, suche termes conne iumpere in his mater, but as the iay chatereth englyssh.
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jumperv.2
/ˈdʒʌmpə/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmpər/ 1. transitive. To bore (a hole) with a jumper (see jumper n.1 6a).
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1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 339 A hole..is jumpered in the rock.
2. To connect by means of a jumper (sense 6d).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > furnish with wires [verb (transitive)] > connect by jumper
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1929 Post Office Electr. Engineers' Jrnl. 22 79/1 From the cable terminal tag blocks all lines are jumpered via protecting apparatus to the ‘line’ tag blocks of the test boards.
1968 T. Howard Black Light xxi. 183 He made no attempt to force the locked ignition, but simply ‘jumpered’ the ignition wiring so that it by-passed the locked switch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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