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Jacky, jackey. World English Historical Dictionary

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Jacky, jackey. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Jacky, jackey [f. JACK sb.1 + -Y dim.]

1   1.  A diminutive or pet form of Jack in various senses.

2 1835.  Hood, Dead Robbery, iii. The stiff ’un … Starts sudden up, like Jacky-in-a-box.

3 1897.  Outing (U.S.), XXX. 358/1. A warm clasp of the hand … from the wealthiest owner as well as from the poorest ‘Jackey’ in port.

4   2.  slang. Gin.

5 1799.  Morn. Herald, in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1800), III. 352. Got up at eight o’clock—had a drap of Jackey.

6 1825.  Brockett, Jackey, English gin.

7 1832.  W. Stephenson, Gateshead Local Poems, 37. Sometimes she would pawn her smock, To get a drop of Jacky.

8   3.  Comb., as jacky-bird, jacky-breezer, jacky-screamer: see quots.

9 1840.  Spurdens, Suppl. Voc. East A., Jacky-breezer, the dragon-fly.

10 1867.  Wood, Pop. Nat. Hist., Birds, 40. When flying, the Swift screams continually, and is sometimes called the Jacky-screamer in consequence.

11 1897.  R. Kearton, Nature & Camera, 277. A live one [starling] called a ‘Jackey-bird’ is secured to what is known amongst the bird-catching fraternity as a ‘flur’ or ‘playstick,’ which can be moved up and down by means of a string which the fowler holds in his left hand.

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