Oh, not from souls akin, and less
From friendship did she know her;
But both had bought the self-same dress
In the same department store!
Jurp, n. 1. A haughty inferior; a saucy underling. 2. An impudent servant or clerk.
Jur´pid, a. Insubordinate or impertinent.
Cooks, brakemen, shop girls are often jurpid. The whistling, gum-chewing office boy, who won’t take in your card and says, “The manager’s out,” is jurpid.
The officious policeman, the barber who talks, the headwaiter, who always gives you the table you don’t want, is jurpid when you object. (See Moosoo.)
What good does it do to report the jurp? You’ll only have on your conscience the fact that a man with a big family has lost his job. And so, you swallow his jurpid jibes.
“Well,” says the jurpid milliner, “you said you wanted a red hat, and this hat’s red. We ain’t got anything redder. If I’d a-known you wanted blue, why didn’t you say so, and I’d a-shown you some purple ones! You can see for yourself green’s more becoming, though.”
Colored maids, messenger boys and janitors cannot help being jurps—they were born that way. (See Splooch.)
It was a jurp who answered back,
Impertinent and pert;
A filthy beast, who drove a hack—
You should have seen his shirt!
And I a gentleman! Whee-ew,
What jurpid things he said!
I’d given him a dollar, too!
But it was made of lead.