jumpsome

comparative more jumpsome · superlative most jumpsome

1. Characterised or marked by jumping

   [...] 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.

   2002, Rudyard Kipling, Janet Taylor Lisle, Just So Stories

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   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 .

   2008, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy