Burpee
 

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

Sounds Injin to me. Most of our odd words seem to come from the sub-continent. Pukka etc, More than that I couldn't say though.

If you do them after lunch that's what they make you do!:yuk:

Thought that was barf?

The Fartlek and the Burpee were both invented by a PE teacher in the 1890s called Thomas Crotch, who could not use his own name for fear of upsetting the ladies.

Wasn't Burpee a Dam Busters navigator?

Pilot i though, lost on the dams raid.

Correct.

RIP

I only know the word as a seed company :8

I only know it as the maker of my outsize pressure cooker.

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.

pba - you're right. They'd be called vurpees then.