Obs. exc. dial. [perh. a corruption of F. juppe JUP, assimilated by popular etymology to JUMP v. and sb.1]
1. A kind of short coat worn by men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: see description in quot. 1688.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. xv. 252. Even the Bedel … without his blew Jump, and silver head tipstaffe loses reputation among the boyes and vagrants.
1665. J. Cosin, Mem. Answ. Prebends Durham, in Surtees Misc. (1858), 267. Wearing long rapiers, great skirted jumpes and short daggers.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 96/2. Iumpe … extendeth to the Thighs is open or buttoned down before, open or slit up behind half way: the Sleeves reach to the Wrist.
1703. Country Farmers Catech. (N.). By’r lady, nothing but a drugget jump and a caster, a russet gown for my wife Susan.
c. 1746. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), View Lancash. Dial., Wks. (1862), 41. I donn’d meh Sunday Jump o top o meh Singlet.
1828. Craven Dial., Jump, a child’s leathern frock.
[1887. South Chesh. Gloss., Jumps, clothes. Chiefly in the phrase ‘Sunday jumps’ = Sunday best.]
† b. spec. Applied in 17th c. to the short coat worn by Presbyterian ministers. Obs.
1653. Pol. Ballads (1860), I. 114. Here’s the trunk-hose of the Rump … And a Presbyterian jump, With an Independent smock.
1656. Artif. Handsom., 119. What enemies were some Ministers … to long cassocks, since the Scotch jump is looked upon as the more military fashion, and a badge of a Northern and cold reformation?
1680. Hickeringill, Meroz, 12. The Jesuits, and the Fanaticks, especially the rigid Presbyterian…. One wears a Fryars weed, the other a short synodical Jump.
2. A kind of under (or undress) bodice worn by women, esp. during the 18th century, and in rural use in the 19th; usually fitted to the bust, and often used instead of stays. From c. 1740 usually as plural jumps (a pair of jumps).
1666. New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Register (1864), XVIII. 329. I give to my sonn Williams wife, ye jump which was my sister Sarah Caps.
1706. T. Baker, Tunbr. Walks, V. i. I’ll be sure to send for you when I have occasion for a new jump.
1740. in Mrs. Delany’s Life, II. 113. Her jumps will go next Sunday, and I daresay she’ll put them on.
1755. Johnson, Jump, a waistcoat; a kind of loose or limber stays worn by sickly ladies.
1762. Songs Costume (Percy Soc.), 240. Now a shape in neat stays, now a slattern in jumps.
1784. Specif. Jean Phillipe’s Patent No. 1444. These springs are for ladies’ jumps who do not choose to wear hard incommodious stays.
1825–80. Jamieson, Jumps, a kind of easy stays, open before, worn by nurses.
3. attrib., as jump-coat = sense 1, 1 b.
1660. Blount, Boscobel, I. (1680), 61. A leather-doublet … a pair of old green breeches and a Jump-coat (as the Country calls it).
1703. Cupid Stripp’d (N.). What long-winded brother in a short jump coat did proach to day.
1755. Carte, Hist. Eng., IV. 642. The habit he came in, was … a green cloth jump coat threadbare, the threads being white.
