jumpsome
jumpsome adjective: characterised or marked by jumping.
Adjective
jumpsome (comparative more jumpsome, superlative most jumpsome)
- Characterised or marked by jumping
- [...] for he would lie down by a 'sclusively yellowish-greyish- brownish stone or clump of grass, and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush- Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by he would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives.2002, Rudyard Kipling, Janet Taylor Lisle, Just So Stories
- Lone Sahib entered the room gingerly, and there, on the pillow of his bed, sprawled and whimpered a wee white kitten; not a jumpsome, frisky little beast, but a sluglike crawler with its eyes barely opened and its paws lacking strength or direction—a kitten that ought to have been in a basket with...2008, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy
Forms of jumpsome
| comparative | more jumpsome |
|---|---|
| superlative | most jumpsome |
Origin of jumpsome
From jump + -some.
Questions about jumpsome
- What does jumpsome mean?
- Jumpsome means characterised or marked by jumping.
- What part of speech is jumpsome?
- Jumpsome is an adjective.
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