"Johnny-jump-up" meaning in English

See Johnny-jump-up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Johnny-jump-ups [plural]
Etymology: From Johnny + jump + up. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Johnny|jump|up}} Johnny + jump + up Head templates: {{en-noun}} Johnny-jump-up (plural Johnny-jump-ups)
  1. (Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.
    Viola bicolor (American field pansy)
    Tags: Canada, US
    Sense id: en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-D16i52V~ Categories (other): American English, Canadian English
  2. (Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.
    Viola cornuta (tufted pansy)
    Tags: Canada, US
    Sense id: en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-kC~0mc9n Categories (other): American English, Canadian English
  3. (Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.
    Viola pedunculata (California golden violet)
    Tags: Canada, US
    Sense id: en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-DhvjfBbX Categories (other): American English, Canadian English
  4. (Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.
    Viola tricolor (heartsease, wild pansy, pansy, et al.)
    Tags: Canada, US Categories (lifeform): Flowers, Violet family plants
    Sense id: en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-7Q4p0wQX Disambiguation of Flowers: 12 12 12 38 12 13 Disambiguation of Violet family plants: 17 17 18 33 8 7 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 15 15 31 15 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 10 10 44 10 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 13 13 33 13 13
  5. (Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies. Tags: Canada, US
    Sense id: en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-MZH98k9X Categories (other): American English, Canadian English
  6. Volatinia jacarina (blue-black grassquit bird)
    Sense id: en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-MCMzoiK2

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Johnny",
        "3": "jump",
        "4": "up"
      },
      "expansion": "Johnny + jump + up",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Johnny + jump + up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Johnny-jump-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Johnny-jump-up (plural Johnny-jump-ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola bicolor (American field pansy)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-D16i52V~",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola bicolor (American field pansy)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola cornuta (tufted pansy)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-kC~0mc9n",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola cornuta (tufted pansy)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola pedunculata (California golden violet)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-DhvjfBbX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola pedunculata (California golden violet)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 15 15 31 15 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 10 10 44 10 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 13 13 33 13 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 12 12 38 12 13",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Flowers",
          "orig": "en:Flowers",
          "parents": [
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 17 18 33 8 7",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Violet family plants",
          "orig": "en:Violet family plants",
          "parents": [
            "Malpighiales order plants",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola tricolor (heartsease, wild pansy, pansy, et al.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-7Q4p0wQX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ],
        [
          "Viola tricolor",
          "Viola tricolor#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "heartsease",
          "heartsease"
        ],
        [
          "wild pansy",
          "wild pansy"
        ],
        [
          "pansy",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola tricolor (heartsease, wild pansy, pansy, et al.)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 6:",
          "text": "He spoke almost dreamily, as if he was all by himself, out in the woods, picking johnny-jump-ups.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies."
      ],
      "id": "en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-MZH98k9X",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Volatinia jacarina (blue-black grassquit bird)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Johnny-jump-up-en-noun-MCMzoiK2"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Johnny-jump-up"
  ],
  "word": "Johnny-jump-up"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Flowers",
    "en:Violet family plants"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Johnny",
        "3": "jump",
        "4": "up"
      },
      "expansion": "Johnny + jump + up",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Johnny + jump + up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Johnny-jump-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Johnny-jump-up (plural Johnny-jump-ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola bicolor (American field pansy)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola bicolor (American field pansy)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola cornuta (tufted pansy)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola cornuta (tufted pansy)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola pedunculata (California golden violet)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola pedunculata (California golden violet)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola tricolor (heartsease, wild pansy, pansy, et al.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ],
        [
          "Viola tricolor",
          "Viola tricolor#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "heartsease",
          "heartsease"
        ],
        [
          "wild pansy",
          "wild pansy"
        ],
        [
          "pansy",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies.",
        "Viola tricolor (heartsease, wild pansy, pansy, et al.)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 6:",
          "text": "He spoke almost dreamily, as if he was all by himself, out in the woods, picking johnny-jump-ups.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several violets or pansies."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "violet",
          "violet"
        ],
        [
          "pansies",
          "pansy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) Any of several violets or pansies."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Volatinia jacarina (blue-black grassquit bird)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Johnny-jump-up"
  ],
  "word": "Johnny-jump-up"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Johnny-jump-up meaning in English (3.8kB)

{
  "called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
  "msg": "''Any of several violets or pans'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
  "path": [
    "Johnny-jump-up"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "Johnny-jump-up",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.