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Jacky, jackey|ˈdʒækɪ|
[f. Jack n.1 + -y dim.]
1. a. A diminutive or pet form of Jack in various senses; spec. a sailor.
1835Hood Dead Robbery iii, The stiff'un..Starts sudden up, like Jacky-in-a-box. 1893Funk's Stand. Dict., Jacky, a sailor. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 358/1 A warm clasp of the hand..from the wealthiest owner as well as from the poorest ‘Jackey’ in port. 1909Daily Chron. 1 Oct. 1/6 The place of honour..was given to the British ‘jackies’, who were easily the most popular.
b. Also Jacky-Jacky. A white man's name for an Aboriginal. Austral. slang.
1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country ii. 35 He was..going to..outdo Jacky-Jacky as a swell. 1944W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 3) 87 Such was the view of the boss—not how good a cattle-man you were, but how cheap and good were your methods with the ‘jackies’—the name given to the natives out there. 1969Sun-Herald (Sydney) 13 July 52/1 ‘Jackie Jackie’ is dead. There is a new and growing spirit in the Aboriginal community.
c. Austral. A kookaburra. Cf. Jack n.1 30 c.
1934Bulletin (Sydney) 11 July 21/2 Jacky left hurriedly and didn't return for his dinner. Ibid. 17 Oct. 20/4 Cockatoos are the latest-feeders among the bush birds, bar the jacky.
2. slang. Gin.
1799Morn. Herald in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1800) III. 352 Got up at eight o'clock—had a drap of Jackey. 1825Brockett, Jackey, English gin. 1832W. Stephenson Gateshead Local Poems 37 Sometimes she would pawn her smock, To get a drop of Jacky.
3. Comb., as ˈjacky-bird, jacky-breezer: see quots.; Jacky (or Jackie) Howe (see quot. 1965); Austral. and N.Z. slang; cf. Jimmy Howe s.v. Jimmy2; jacky-screamer: see quot.; Jacky Winter Austral., the brown flycatcher, Micrœca fascinans.
1897R. Kearton Nature & Camera 277 A live one [starling] called a ‘Jackey⁓bird’ is secured to a ‘flue’ or ‘play-stick’, which can be moved up and down by means of a string which the fowler holds in his left hand.
1840Spurdens Suppl. Voc. East A., Jacky-breezer, the dragon-fly.
1930Bulletin (Sydney) 9 Apr. 19/2 It took nine bars of soap to wash his ‘Jacky Howe’ flannel. 1948V. Palmer Golconda xi. 85 In his sleeveless Jackie Howe he swaggered around showing the punctures on his burly arm. 1965N.Z. Listener 26 Feb. 15/2 Jackie Howe, the familiar navy or black woollen singlet worn by Australian and New Zealand shearers and bushmen. It is named after Jackie Howe, an Australian shearer who in 1892 established a world shearing record by shearing 321 Merinoes with hand shears in 8 hr 40 min.
1867Wood Pop. Nat. Hist., Birds 40 When flying, the Swift screams continually, and is sometimes called the Jacky-screamer in consequence.
1898Morris Austral Eng. 218/2 Jacky Winter..the vernacular name in New South Wales of the Brown Flycatcher, Micrœca fascinans, a common little bird about Sydney. 1911Lucas & Le Souëf Birds Austral. 272 Jacky Winter is indeed seldom molested by even the thoughtless schoolboys. 1936F. D. Davison Children of Dark People 5 Jacky winters..flitted among the bushes. 1969A. Bell Common Austral. Birds (ed. 2) 22 Post Boy, Jacky Winter, Spinks—half-a-dozen unofficial names suggest the friendly feeling towards this quiet, confidential, contented bird. |