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jumpy, a.|ˈdʒʌmpɪ|
[f. jump n. + -y.]
1. Characterized by jumps or sudden movements from one thing or state to another.
1869Daily News 25 Nov., ‘O Paradise’ was thus sung to a jumpy measure in six-eight time. 1893Scot. Leader 15 July 3 The stock markets were in that condition best described as ‘jumpy’, though the jumps were generally in the downward direction.
2. a. Characterized by sudden involuntary movements caused by nervous excitement; nervous, apprehensive.
1879A. Forbes in Daily News 21 Aug. 5/3 Nothing..makes a man so jumpy and nervous as a good steady rain of shell-fire. 1894Doyle Round Red Lamp 11 It made me jumpy to watch him. 1918Wine, Women & War (1926) 10 No trip for anybody with jumpy nerves. 1935[see gooey a.]. 1957Sat. Even. Post 21 Sept. 94 One of our pals in the nightclub business is jumpy and he needs a bodyguard tonight. 1974G. Markstein Cooler xlvi. 167 She was jumpy about the blackout too... She is on edge, he decided.
b. Producing nervous excitement.
1883Burton & Cameron Gold Coast I. iii. 75 The people seem to delight in standing, like wild goats, upon the dizziest of ‘jumpy’ peaks. 1896Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 3/1 The adventure which might be called the most ‘jumpy’.
Hence ˈjumpiness, the state or condition of being jumpy.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 854 There is, indeed, a general condition of jumpiness and nervousness. |