▪ I. jaup, jawp, v. 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 (ɑː, a, ɔː, ɒ).]
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. |
▪ II. jaup, jawp, n. Sc. and north. dial.
[Goes with jaup v.]
The splash of water against any surface, or one of the drops or spurts of water which this scatters on adjacent bodies; a spot of water or wet mud splashed upon the clothes from wet or muddy ground, etc.
| 1513 Douglas æneis v. iii. 44 Weill far from thens standis a roche in the see,..Quhilk, sumtyme with the boldnand wallis quhite, Is by the iawp of fludis coverit quyte. Ibid. viii. i. 136, I am God Tibris,..Quhilk,..with mony iaup and iaw Bettis thir brayis, schawand the bankis down. 1786 Burns Brigs of Ayr 126 Then down ye'll hurl,..And dash the gumlie jaups up to the pouring skies! 1880 Antrim & Down Gloss., Japs, splashes or sparks of water or mud. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Jaup, a splash or smut of mud or dirt of any kind adhering to any article. A spurt of water. |
b. (See quots.)
| 1811 Willan W. Riding Gloss. (E.D.S.), Jop, the sound of water agitated in a narrow or irregular vessel. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Jaup, the sound produced by liquid shaken in a half-empty cask. |