Meaning of jumpsome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised or marked by jumping

Examples

“[...] 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.”

“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 its mamma .”

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