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Jump

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To jump or to fit or unite with like a graft; as, both our inventions meet and jump in one. Hence the adverb exactly, precisely.

Good advice is easily followed when it jumps with our own … inclinations.”—Lockhart: Sir Walter Scott, chap. x. p. 241

⁂ The Scotch use jimp, as, “When she had been married jimp four months” (The Antiquary.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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