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Ok guys heres a pop quiz! Very very bored at work and we are trying to suss out where the word comes from.
By Burpee we mean the exercise move. Any ideas??
Opsguy
Sorry very very bored
By Burpee we mean the exercise move. Any ideas??
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Sorry very very bored
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I only know the word as a seed company
According to the copy of COD (11th ed) on my phone, it is after the name of the Ameican psychologist Royal H Burpee. What the etymology of his, and his Dambusting namesake's, name is I couldn't tell you.