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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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JEOPARDIE, n. Also jepordie; jeoparty; jipperty. Sc. forms and usages of Eng. jeopardy:

1. Peril; a daring exploit.Sc. 1816 Scott Antiquary xl.:
Now here a knight that's stout and good May prove a jeopardie.Ayr. 1826 Galt Last of Lairds ix.:
But, leddies, leddies, I see a jeopardie gathering over you.Abd. 1929 J. Alexander Mains & Hilly 167:
It's as muckle in jipperty's the owse wid be, an' I consider it's ma duty to save't fae destruction.

2. In pl.: risks, difficulties.Wgt. 1803 R. Couper Tourifications II. 11:
Whatever may have yet befallen thee, have not been loaded indeed with jeopardies.Ayr. 1826 Galt Last of Lairds xxv.:
The pains we hae taken, out o' a sense o' religion, to help the Laird in his jepordies.

3. Comb.: jeoparty trot, “a quick motion between running and walking when one from the influence of fear or weakness is not able to run at full speed” (Dmf. 1808 Jam.); also used as “a contemptuous designation for a person, perhaps as equivalent to coward, poltroon” (Ib.).