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<pre wrap="">'creeping jenny' is the name of a well-known groundcover in SA. I also found the foll. in the OED:
<a name="50124685se13"></a><b><!--start_lemma--><!--start_bl-->jumping-betty<!--end_bl--><!--end_lemma--></b>, a popular name of the Garden Balsam, <i>Impatiens Balsamina</i>, the seeds of which jump out of the elastic capsules when these are touched (Parish <i>Sussex Gloss.</i> 1875);
<font color="#cc0000"><a name="50124685se14"></a><b><!--start_lemma--><!--start_bl-->jumping-jack<!--end_bl--><!--end_lemma--></b></font>,
a child's toy made out of the merry-thought of a fowl; a toy figure of
a man, which is made to jump by being pulled with strings; also <i>transf.</i>: see quots.;
<a name="50124685se15"></a><b><!--start_lemma--><!--start_bl-->jumping-Johnny </b><b>1865<!--end_d--></b> <i><!--start_w-->Reader<!--end_w--></i><!--start_qt--> No. 140. 264/1 The plate-sawing machine called a *Jumping Johnny.
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Recently I corresponded with someone on this list about the meaning of a
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">></span>German <span
class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>ompound word following the pattern 'verb/noun + a first name as a suffix,'
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>like:
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<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Zappelphilipp = a boy who can't sit still
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Laberheini = rambling person (Heini is short for Heinrich)
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Heulsuse = someone (man or woman) who cries a lot (Suse is short for
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Susanne)
<span class="moz-txt-citetags"></span> Examples would be "smoking Joe" (for
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>the <span
class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>boxer Joe Frazier), "studying Jesse," "peeping Tom," "doubting Thomas",
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span> especially if they have "made it" to become common expressions and are
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>included in the dictionary.
<span class="moz-txt-citetags"> </span>
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Fritz Goerling
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