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JARP
Definition of JARP
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.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
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.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Scots
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
22nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (139)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, JARP · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JARP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JARP starts with J and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AJPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found JARP?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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