Etymograph

English

jarp

Jarp comes from Scots jaup ‘(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.’.

  1. Scotsc. 1450–presentjaup‘(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1898jarp

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Scotsc. 1450–presentjaup‘(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1898jarp

Earliest quotation: 1898, Richard Blakeborough, Customs of the Year and Folklore: “Many of the lads, however, have a much speedier…”

The story

Borrowed from Scots jaup (‘(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.; broken piece, fragment; light blow, slap; (verb) of water: to dash; to splash; to cause a splash by striking the surface of or throwing water; to bespatter or splash (mud, water, etc.); (obsolete) to knock about, manhandle’), perhaps from jalp, jilp (‘to spill, splash, squirt’), probably originally imitative of a splash.

Every English word from Scots jaup

Today it means

noun The act of knocking one's pace egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Scots jaup / jarp

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