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jasey|ˈdʒeɪzɪ|
Also jasy, jazey, jazy, Sc. jeezy.
[According to Forby = Jersey: see quot. 1825.]
A humorous or familiar name for a wig, esp. one made of worsted.
c1780G. Parker Life's Painter 157 Wig, Jasey. 1797M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 8 Dash my jasey, if I wasn't threatened with the pillory. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xx, The old gentleman in the flaxen jazy. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Jasey, a contemptuous name for a wig, or even a bushy head of hair, as if the one were actually, and the other apparently, made of Jersey yarn, of which this is the common corrupt pronunciation. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxii. 1899Besant Orange Girl ii. xviii, He wore the old jasey with a broken pigtail.
Hence jaseyed |ˈdʒeɪzɪd| a., wigged.
1883L. Wingfield A. Rowe I. ix. 203 Was ever jaseyed person so perfidious? |