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† whip-jack Obs.|ˈhwɪpdʒæk|
[app. f. whip v. 6 + Jack n.1]
A vagabond or beggar who pretends to be a distressed sailor. Also gen.
a1556Ponet in Maitland's Ess. Ref. (1849) 74 One Boner (a bare whippe Iacke) for lucre of money toke vpon him to be thy father. 1561J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. (1869) 4 A Whypiacke is one that by coulor of a counterfaite Lisence doth use to beg lyke a Maryner. 1608Dekker Belman of London Wks. (Grosart) III. 102 Another sort of..knaues..are called Whipiacks: who talke of nothing but fights at Sea, piracies, drownings and shipwracks. 1753Richardson Grandison VI. xxv. 142 Sir Charles Grandison is none of your gew-gaw whip-jacks. [1834Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, ‘And a rum'un he be’,..returned the whip-jack, or sham sailor.]
b. Humorously applied to a book in blue binding. nonce-use.
1624in Cosin's Corr. (Surtees) i. 33 He also sent me a little whipjack in a blew jackett, caled A Gagg for the newe Gospell. |