A name given to certain flowers. In Aroostook, Maine, the pansy. (‘Dialect Notes,’ iii. 413.)
1858. You stand here, and with smiling faces spend $60,000. a year for morning-glories and johnny jump-ups.—Mr. Marshall of Kentucky, House of Repr., May 19: Cong. Globe, p. 2244.
1908. I used to call ’em Johnny-jump-ups, till Henrietta told me that their right name was daffydil. But Johnny-jump-up suits ’em best, for it kind o’ tells how they come up in the spring.—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 274.
