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jackass, n.|ˈdʒækæs|
[f. Jack n.1 38 + ass n.]
1. A male ass, a he-ass.
1727Arbuthnot Coins 128 Pliny relates from Varro that a Jack-ass for a Stallion was bought for 3,229l. 3s. 4d. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 385, I have seen a jack-ass, from that country, above fifteen hands high. 1803A. Young in A. Hunter's Georg. Ess. III. 197 The Earl of Egremont, early in 1800 established a team of six Jack-asses for carting. 1815Scott Guy M. viii, She often contrived to..give him a ride upon her jackass. 1899Morley in Westm. Gaz. 26 May 9/1 The old Greeks, when disputing and debating about idle contentions, had an expression that they were contending for the shadow of a jackass.
2. Applied opprobriously to a stupid or foolish person, a dolt, a blockhead: = ass n. 2.
1823Scott Peveril vii, I..began..to think I had borne myself something like a jackass in the matter. 1870Dickens E. Drood iv, The purest Jackass in Cloisterham.
3. laughing jackass (also in mod. use simply jackass): the Giant Kingfisher of Australia (Dacelo gigas), so called from its loud discordant cry.
The name is also given to a kind of owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) in New Zealand, and jackass or Derwent jackass to a shrike (Cracticus cinereus) in Tasmania.
1798D. Collins N.S. Wales 615 (Morris) Bird named by us the Laughing Jackass. 1833C. Sturt S. Australia II. iv. 100 He returned with..a laughing jackass..a species of king's-fisher, a singular bird, found in every part of Australia. 1847Leichhardt Jrnl. x. 326 The laughing Jackass (Dacelo cervina, Gould) of this part of the country, is of a different species from that of the eastern coast. 1848H. W. Haygarth Bush Life Australia xii. 130 The silence..was broken in a startling manner by the loud note, ha! ha! ha! of the ‘laughing jackass’. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xviii. 148 Below us, in the valley, a mob of jackasses were shouting and laughing uproariously. 1880L. A. Meredith Tasman. Friends & Foes 110 (Morris) We, too, have a ‘jackass’, a smaller bird, and not in any way remarkable, except for its merry gabbling sort of song. 1882T. H. Potts Out in the Open 122 (ibid.) Athene Albifacies, wekau of the Maoris, is known by some up⁓country settlers as the big owl or laughing jackass.
4. Naut.
a. A kind of heavy rough boat used in Newfoundland. (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867.)
b. = hawse-bag: see hawse n.1 5. (U.S.)
1891in H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 1907A. T. Mahan From Sail to Steam iv. 96 The absurd-sounding, but legitimate, message to have the jackasses put in the hawse-holes. 1918F. Riesenberg Under Sail ii. 29 ‘Jackasses’ were then bowsed into the hawse holes for fair. 1948R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 368/1 Jackasses are a most effective method of making hawseholes watertight in ships using stocked anchors.
5. attrib., (in sense 2) as jackass author, etc.; Comb., as jackass-driver, jackass-headed adj.; jackass barque, a sailing ship having the same sails as a barquentine but rigged in a manner varying in some respect from the orthodox barquentine rig; jackass brandy U.S. slang, home-made brandy; jackass brig, ‘a brig with square topsail and topgallant-sail instead of a gaff-topsail’ (Cent. Dict.); jackass copal, the raw copal of Zanzibar: see quots.; jackass-deer, an African antelope, the singsing; jackass-fish, a fish of the Australian seas (Chilodactylus macropterus), highly esteemed as food; jackass frigate (see quot. and cf. donkey-frigate: frigate n. 2 b, quot. 1867); jackass penguin, a common species of penguin (Spheniscus demersus), so called from its cry; jackass pick (see quot.); jackass rabbit = jack-rabbit; jackass-rigged a., of a schooner, having three masts with square sails set on the foremast and having no main topmast; jackass schooner, a schooner which is jackass-rigged.
1884J. Fitzpatrick To an Old Printer, And many a *jackass author has his wit Saved from damnation's literary pit.
1861Mitchell's Maritime Reg. 890 On the 10th instant there was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. J. and J. Hall, at Arbroath, a beautifully modelled *jackass barque, named the Princess Alice, of 190 tons N.N.M. 1923F. C. Bowen Ships for All ii. 39 The sails of a barquentine and of a jackass barque are precisely the same. 1969B. Landström Sailing Ships 178 It sometimes occurred that a ship was rigged, for example, with a fore-and-aft sail on the lower mainmast and square sails on the top and topgallant masts... In England all such types of pseudo-barques were called jackass barques.
1920Federal Reporter (U.S.) CCLXXVIII. 42 Intoxicating liquors, to wit, one pint bottle of *jackass brandy. 1921Dialect Notes V. 109 Jackass brandy, a home-made brandy with a powerful ‘kick’. 1923San Francisco Examiner 18 Feb. 16/7 A still in operation and a stock of jackass brandy close by.
1883R. B. Dixon Fore & Aft 191 The potatoes would have to be paid for before that ‘*jackass brig’ could sail. 1887G. Davis Recoll. Sea Wanderer's Life 231 She is what is called a jackass brig. She has one mast square rigged and the other is schooner rigged, with topsail. 1926Sea Breezes VIII. 214 There was a jackass brig, no main course, main yard high up, rigged like a topsail schooner on main mast.
1860Reade Cloister & H. lv. (1896) 157 A dog as big as a *jackass colt.
1872R. F. Burton Zanzibar I. 357 These places supply only the raw or unripe Copal, locally called Chakazi, and by us corrupted to *Jackass. 1887Sci. Amer. 28 May 340/2 The raw, or true, copal is called chackaze, corrupted by the Zanzibar merchant to jackass copal.
1829Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 143 Your poor industrious *jackass-driver.
1898Morris Austral English, Morwong, the New South Wales name for the fish Chilodactylus macropterus; also called the Carp and *Jackass-fish.
1833Marryat P. Simple xiii, ‘What do you mean by a *jackass frigate’? inquired I. ‘I mean one of your twenty-eight gun ships, so called, because there is as much difference between them and a real frigate, like the one we are sailing in, as there is between a donkey and a race⁓horse. 1851Voy. to Mauritius i. 10 The skipper looks anxiously toward the man of war, a jackass frigate, lying lower down the harbour.
1883Black Shandon Bells xii, To be jumped upon by a *jackass-headed old idiot like that.
1863G. Kearney Links in Chain ix. 195 The famous *Jackass Penguin. 1865Reader 29 Apr. 486/2 Commonly called the ‘Jackass Penguin’, from its habit, while on shore, of throwing its head backwards, and making a loud strange noise like the braying of that animal.
1874J. H. Collins Metal Mining 60 When the pick is much used as a lever, the head is frequently formed..with a projecting wing to afford increased support to the helve. This is called a *jackass pick.
1851Audubon Vivip. Quadr. N.A. II. 97 All ideas of blue mountains, vast rolling prairies, etc., were cut short by a *jackass-rabbit bounding from under our horses' feet. 1883Leisure Hour 475/2 Jackass rabbits (the Californian hare), and numbers of..grey..land squirrels..scampered..over the flats.
1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 168 To have *jack-ass racing upon particular days.
1883E. F. Knight Cruise ‘Falcon’ (1887) 32 October 19th..passed a *jackass-rigged craft. 1898A. Ansted Dict. Sea Terms 239 There is another class of trading schooner, with three masts... When it sets square sails on the fore⁓mast it is sometimes called jackass rigged.
1929H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail (new ed.) 520 *Jackass schooner, still used occasionally of a schooner without main-topmast. 1951H. Benham Down Tops'l v. 71 ‘Jackass’ schooners..were so called because they were square rigged forward like a tops'l schooner, but had a ketch's mizzen. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 122 A ‘jackass schooner’ has no main topmast.
Hence ˈjackass v. intr., to ride a jackass; jaˈckassery, the character of a jackass (see 2), gross folly or stupidity; (with pl.) something characteristic of a jackass, a piece of folly; jackassifiˈcation, the action of making a jackass of, stultification; ˈjackassism = jackassery; jackassness, the quality of being a jackass, gross foolishness. (All more or less nonce-wds.)
1893Leland Mem. I. 228 Driving in a Russian telega, or *jackassing in Egypt.
1833Fraser's Mag. VII. 618 The genius of *jackassery is not always to rule us. 1889Mrs. Randolph New Eve II. xiii. 206 He will clothe his body after the latest jackasseries of the masher.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 57 Acting on the principle of the general *jackassification of mankind,..he abuses them right and left.
a1845Barham Ingol. Leg., Wedding-Day 46 Calling names, whether done to attack or to back a schism, Is..a great piece of *jack-ass-ism.
1803Southey Lett. (1856) I. 238 The crimes of pedantry, stupidity, *jackassness. 1885C. L. Pirkis Lady Lovelace I. v. 74 To convey such news..was the very essence of Jackassness. |