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jumper | jimper |

As a noun jumper

is someone or something that jumps, eg a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing or jumper can be (chiefly|british|australian) a woolen sweater or pullover.

As a verb jumper

is to connect with an electrical jumper.

As an adjective jimper is

(jimp).

jumper

English

Etymology 1

See jump.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
  • A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire .
  • A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
  • A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
  • A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers.
  • (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
  • The larva of the cheese fly.
  • One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
  • (horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
    • Derived terms
    * high-jumper, long-jumper, triple-jumper

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To connect with an electrical jumper.

    • Etymology 2

    From the term ; see also jibba.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, British, Australian) A woolen sweater or pullover.
  • A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
  • A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children.
  • (usually as jumpers ) Rompers.

    • jimper

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (jimp)

    • jimp

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (dated, Scotland and N England) neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1899 , year_published=2007 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Neil Munro , title=Gilian the Dreamer , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Do I look so terrible old, Gilian, that you cannot think of me as not so bad-looking either, with a bonny eye, they said, and a jimp waist, and a foot like the honey-bee? }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1994 , year_published=2011 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=George MacDonald Fraser , title=Flashman and the Angel of the Lord , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher=HarperCollins , isbn=9780007325696 , page= , passage=… Annette was on hand, stony-eyed but mighty jimp in a gown that seemed to consist of flowers and gauze. }}
  • (dated, Scotland and N England) scant; barely sufficient.

    • See also

    * gimp ()