different between jumpy vs humpy
jumpy
English
Etymology
From jump +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??mpi/
- Rhymes: -?mpi
Adjective
jumpy (comparative jumpier, superlative jumpiest)
- Nervous and excited.
Translations
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humpy
English
Etymology 1
hump +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?mpi/
- Rhymes: -?mpi
Adjective
humpy (comparative humpier, superlative humpiest)
- Characterised by humps, uneven.
- Muscular; hunky.
- Hunched, bent over.
- 1907, P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel, 2008, page 107,
- Tell you what it was just like. Reminded me of it even at the time: that picture of Napoleon coming back from Moscow. The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them.
- 1907, P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel, 2008, page 107,
- Sulky; irritable.
Derived terms
- humpily
- humpiness
Noun
humpy (plural humpies)
- Alternative form of humpie
Etymology 2
From Yagara (Brisbane region) ?umbi, perhaps influenced by hump.
Noun
humpy (plural humpies)
- (Australia) A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter III, p. 29, [6]
- They did nothing much more in the way of building than to erect a number of crazy humpies of such materials as bark and kerosene-cans […]
- 1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics 2012, p. 31:
- Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy.
- 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, 1995, Angus & Robertson, p. 257,
- There weren?t that many blacks about, but a lot of humpies – at times it must have been a fairly big camp.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter III, p. 29, [6]
Synonyms
- gunyah
- mia mia
- wurly
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