different between jumped vs sprung
jumped
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??mpt/
- Rhymes: -?mpt
Verb
jumped
- simple past tense and past participle of jump
jumped From the web:
- what jumped 400 in the 1920s
- what jumped over the moon
- what's jumped mean
- what's jumped the shark
- what jumped on the bandwagon
- what jumped off the porch mean
- what jumped over the fence
- what's jumped the gun
sprung
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sp???/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sp???/
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
sprung
- past participle of spring
- Alternative form of sprang: simple past tense of spring
Adjective
sprung (comparative more sprung, superlative most sprung)
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) Utterly infatuated with someone; completely taken over by romantic interest.
- (Australia, slang) Caught doing something illegal or against the rules.
- (obsolete, nautical, of a spar) cracked or strained.
- (slang, dated) drunk.
- Fitted or cushioned with springs.
Usage notes
- The adjective sprung, unlike (say) infatuated, does not normally take a complement; a person may be infatuated with someone, but is simply sprung. As with crazy or gaga, the target of the emotion is normally indicated by surrounding context; this is seen in the 1992 and 2003 quotations above. However, while relatively uncommon, it is possible for sprung to take a complement, construed with a preposition such as over (much like gaga); this is seen in the 2005 quotation above.
Synonyms
- (infatuated): smitten, taken; see also Thesaurus:in love
- (caught doing something illegal): caught with a hand in the cookie jar, red-handed
- (cracked or strained): crazed, splintered; see also Thesaurus:broken
- (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
Antonyms
- unsprung
Derived terms
- coil-sprung
- leaf-sprung
References
- (drunk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
sprung From the web:
- what sprung means
- sprung up meaning
- what's sprung weight
- what sprung up
- meaning of sprung out
- sprung what tense
- what does sprung mean sexually
- what is sprung mattress
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