[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That jumps, in various senses of the verb. Jumping cat: see CAT sb.1 13 e.
1567. [implied in JUMPINGLY below].
1611. Bible, Nahum iii. 2. The noise … of the praunsing horses, and of the iumping charets.
1659. D. Pell, Impr. Sea, 416–7. They can very well sit, and abide the jumping waves of the Seas.
1844. W. H. Maxwell, Sports & Adv. Scotl., xiii. (1853), 118. There is … what seamen call a jumping sea.
1899. G. W. E. Russell, in 19th Cent., Oct., 692. The worship of the Jumping Cat, and the appeal to the Man in the Street.
b. In names of animals characterized by their jumping or springing movement: jumping-beetle, an insect destructive to turnips, etc.; jumping-bug, an insect of the family Halticoridæ; jumping-deer, the black-tailed deer of N. America, Cariacus macrotis (Webster, 1864); jumping-hare, a rodent quadruped of S. Africa, Pedetes caffer or Helamys capensis, resembling the jerboa; jumping-louse, a flea-louse, a jumping plant-louse; jumping-mouse, (a) the American deer-mouse, Zapus hudsonius; (b) = jumping-rat; jumping-mullet, a catostomoid fish of North America, Moxostoma cervinum; also a gray mullet, Mugil albula; jumping-rat, a rodent of the family Dipodidæ; jumping-shrew, the elephant-shrew of Africa, an insectivorous quadruped of the family Macroscelididæ; jumping-spider, one of the group of spiders that leap upon their prey, instead of spinning a web to catch it.
1817. Blackw. Mag., II. 235. His turnips are devoured by the *jumping beetle.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIX. 513/2. This is the … Spring-Has or *Jumping Hare of the Dutch. Ibid., 509/2. *Jumping Mice.
1849. Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia, IV. 41. The Labrador Jumping Mouse … is very common in the fur countries of North America.
1766. J. Bartram, Jrnl., 14 Jan., in Stark, Acc. E. Florida, 35. Saw a mullet jump three times in a minute or two, which they generally do before they rest, so are called *jumping-mullets.
1813. Bingley, Anim. Biog. (ed. 4), III. 363. The *Jumping Spider … does not, like many others, take its prey by means of a net, but is constrained to seize them only by its own activity.
c. Jumping-bean, -seed, the seed of a Mexican euphorbiaceous plant, which jumps about by reason of the movements of the larva of a tortricid moth (Carpocapsa saltitans) enclosed within it (Cent. Dict.); jumping-betty, a popular name of the Garden Balsam, Impatiens Balsamina, the seeds of which jump out of the elastic capsules when these are touched (Parish, Sussex Gloss., 1875); jumping-jack, a child’s toy made out of the merry-thought of a fowl; a toy figure of a man, which is made to jump by being pulled with strings; also transf.: see quots.; jumping-Johnny (see quot.).
1883. E. E. Hale, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 277/1. Barley-candy statuettes, *jumping-jacks, and other … toys.
1884. Henley & Stevenson, Deacon Brodie, II. v. (1892), 50. He was my butt, my ape, my jumping-jack.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 26 May, 3/2. By sailors the crested penguin is known by the name of the ‘jumping jack,’ from its habit of jumping from the water.
1865. Reader, No. 140. 264/1. The plate-sawing machine called a *Jumping Johnny.
Hence Jumpingly adv., in a jumping manner.
1567. Drant, Horace, Arte Poetrye, A iv b. Do not imitate So iumpingly, so precyselie And step, for step so strayte.
1855. Chamb. Jrnl., III. 388. This amphitheatre slopes roughly, jumpingly down to a river.
