Sc. and north. dial. Also jap, jaap, jalp. [app. echoic: the Sc. spelling au, aw, in early 16th c. suggests an original jalp (cf. haud, yaud from hald, yald), which is an apt echo of the sound made by agitated water. The vowel now varies dialectally as ā, a, ǭ, ǫ.]
1. intr. To dash and rebound like water with splashing of the vicinity; to move with splashing; to splash; to make a light splashing sound.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. x. 101. A rok of the see,… Fra wallis feill, in all thair byr and swecht Iawping about his skyrtis wyth mony a bray.
1787. Burns, To a Haggis, viii. Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies.
1825. Brockett, s.v., The water went jauping in the skeel.
1828. Craven Dial., Jaupe, to dash like water.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss. Suppl., Jaup, to splash, make a splashing noise; said of the sound made by water or any liquid in a bucket or barrel: ‘How it jaups about.’
2. trans. a. To cause (water or liquid) to splash or move with splashing. b. To splash or bespatter (a person or thing) with water, wet mud, or the like, rebounding from a breaking wave, wet or muddy ground, etc.
1721. Kelly, Sc. Prov., 283. Ride fair and jaap nane.
a. 1800[?]. Rosmer Hafmand, 110, in Child, Ballads (1857), I. 428. Rosmer sprang i’ the saut sea out, And jawp’d it up i’ the sky.
a. 1801. R. Gall, Poems (1819), 25. Sandie frae his doughty wark Came hame a’ jaupit i’ the dark.
1825–80. Jamieson, To Jawp, Jaap, Jalp, to bespatter with mud.
Mod. Sc. The laddie ran through the mud and jaupit hissel’ up to the neck.
