单词 | jump-up |
释义 | jump-upn. colloquial. 1. An escarpment. Australian local. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > steep cliffOE cleevec1300 hangingc1400 braea1500 steep1555 steepness1585 proclivity1645 upright1712 sliddera1793 snab1797 scarp1802 escarpment1815 shin1817 escarp1856 hag1868 jump-off1873 inface1896 fault-scarp1897 scarping1909 fault-line scarp1911 steephead1918 jump-up1927 1927 M. Terry Through Land of Promise vi. 85 We had been looking at the ‘jump-up’ marking the extremity of the Barkly Tableland. 1969 ‘A. Garve’ Boomerang i. 32 There's a sharpish rise from the plain to the tableland, with a steep edge—what we call the ‘jump-up’. 2. Caribbean. A party or celebration characterized by lively dancing. Also (and in earliest use): a lively style of dance.ⓘParticularly associated with carnival. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > informal hop1731 kick-upc1781 carpet-dance1846 shindig1871 stomp1926 jump-up1948 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > West Indies myal1868 bamboula1883 merengue1888 mento1910 burru1929 son1931 dinki mini1936 Shango1941 jump-up1948 Afro1949 1948 E. Leaf Isles of Rhythm viii. 170 Dancing and doing the jump-up to the din of the steel bands. 1952 R. de Boissière Crown Jewel in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 477/2 He..wishes he could join in the jump-up with the women himself. 1969 I. McDonald Humming-bird Tree (1992) v. 164 The steelband section that would give the music for the jump-up were sounding out their pans now, lightly beating on the seasoned iron. 1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Feb. 6/1 With the carnival fever in the air, the students at the Cave Hill campus will stage their pre-carnival jump-up and calypso tent at the campus tomorrow, beginning at 5 p.m. 2013 @andreaqueens 19 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Dec. 2020) Carnival week!!! Woop woop! Prepare for the jump up with me tonight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasjump-up a. An act of jumping; a spring from the ground or other base; a leap, a bound: usually with reference to people or animals springing with the muscular action of the limbs. Sometimes with adverb, as jump-up. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > a leap, spring, or jump leapOE startc1330 saulta1350 lope14.. launchc1440 sprenting?a1475 loup1487 springa1500 stenda1500 benda1522 sprenta1522 bounce1523 jump1552 sally1589 rise1600 bound1667 vault1728 sprinta1800 spang1817 spend1825 upleap1876 sprit1880 bunny hop1950 bunny-hop1969 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > rapidly or sharply jump-up1890 skyrocket1895 toadstool1939 balloon1946 mushroom1951 ramp1980 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Iumpe, subsultus. Iumpe by Iumpe, subsultim. 1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. H.3 Began with speed, for to plucke vp my feete, Because the place, did put me to my iumps. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H3v The Orbes celestiall Will daunce Kemps Iigge. They'le reuel with neate iumps. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 265 It [sc. the hare]..sildome looketh forward, because it goeth by iumpes. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 205 The cat..then seized it with a jump. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ix. 120 We will be back in a squirrel's jump. 1890 Spectator 15 Mar. The god comes out of the car with a jump-up like a Jack-in-the-box. < n.1927 as lemmas |
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