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单词 jacky
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Jackyn.

Brit. /ˈdʒaki/, U.S. /ˈdʒæki/, Australian English /ˈdʒæki/
Forms: 1600s– Jackey, 1800s– Jackie, 1800s– Jacky; also Scottish 1700s– Jaikie, 1900s Jakie, 1900s– Jaickie. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Jack n.2, -y suffix6.
Etymology: < Jack n.2 + -y suffix6.In sense 2 perhaps by punning allusion to gin n.3: compare its homonym gin n.1 8 with Jack n.2 11, 12. Compare later Jack n.2 25.
1.
a. A diminutive or pet form of the male forename Jack in various extended uses (cf. especially Jack n.2 I.). Sometimes in compounds and noun phrases equating to (more common) parallel forms with Jack. With quot. 1837, cf. Jack-in-the-box n.; with quot. 1865, cf. jackstone n.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun]
gadlinga1300
geggea1300
churlc1300
filec1300
jot1362
scoutc1380
beggara1400
carla1400
turnbroach14..
villainc1400
gnoffc1405
fellowc1425
cavelc1430
haskardc1487
hastardc1489
foumart1508
strummel?a1513
knapper1513
hogshead?1518
jockeya1529
dreng1535
sneakbill1546
Jack1548
rag1566
scald1575
huddle and twang1578
sneaksby1580
companion1581
lowling1581
besognier1584
patchcock1596
grill1597
sneaksbill1602
scum1607
turnspit1607
cocoloch1610
compeer1612
dust-worm1621
besonioa1625
world-worma1625
besognea1652
gippo1651
Jacky1653
mechanic1699
fustya1732
grub-worm1752
raff1778
person1782
rough scuff1816
spalpeen1817
bum1825
sculpin1834
soap-lock1840
tinka1843
'Arry1874
scruff1896
scruffo1959
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland
ScoteOE
rivlin?c1300
bere-bag1352
Scotchman1407
Scottishman1429
Scotsman?c1450
blue cap1598
North Britain1604
Jockc1641
Jacky1653
Whiglander1682
Albanian1685
sawneya1704
North Briton1718
Caledonian1768
Sandy1785
Scotchy1832
Scotty1851
haggis bag1892
haggis-eater1937
1653 J. Taylor Short Relation Long Journey 5 Yet I dare challenge Scottish Jock or Jackey, Or any light-heel'd nimble footed Lackey, To travell such a Jaunt as I have done.
1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 124 The stiff'un..Starts sudden up, like Jacky-in-a-box.
1865 Notes & Queries 25 Mar. 250/2 The term jackey-stones is quite common in Cumberland and Westmoreland. In Yorkshire the pebbles are called jacks and five-stones.
1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 17 Apr. 497/3 A horrid kind of caterwauling was produced, upon hearing which every Jackey kissed his Jenny.
1886 Topical Times 15 May 1/5 Three loud cheers for C. Williams, who brought in the Bill, And..got it carried, To enable poor yokels like Jacky and Jill After twelve of the clock to be married.
1924 I. Adair Glowerower 31 The bairns were tae be guid tae the jakies, or they wad be turned into craws next spring.
1987 R. Guy Ray Guy's Best 146 We do not want every Tom, Dick or Jacky horning in on this, the most splendid and wonderful racket in the world.
b. spec. colloquial. A sailor; = Jack n.2 3. Cf. Jack tar n. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]
shipmanc900
seamanOE
buscarlOE
shipperc1100
ship-gumec1275
marinerc1300
skipper1390
marinela1400
waterman1421
maryneller1470
seafarer1513
sea-fardingera1550
navigator1574
marinec1575
sailer1585
Triton1589
Neptunist1593
canvas-climber1609
sea-crab1609
tar-lubber1610
Neptunian1620
salt-rover1620
sailora1642
tarpaulin1647
otter1650
water dog1652
tarpauliana1656
Jack1659
tar1676
sea-animal1707
Jack tar1709
sailor-man1761
tarry-breeks1786
hearty1790
ocean-farera1806
tarry-jacket1822
Jacky1826
nautical1831
salt water1839
matelotc1847
knight of the tar-brush1866
main-yard man1867
gobby1883
tarry-John1888
blue jersey1889
lobscouser1889
flat-foot1897
handyman1899
1826 ‘B. Truck’ Man-of-war's-man xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 172/2 As lofty and proud as e'er a quarterly-account Jackey in the service.
1897 Outing 30 358/1 A warm clasp of the hand..from the wealthiest owner as well as from the poorest ‘Jackey’ in port.
1909 Daily Chron. 1 Oct. 1/6 The place of honour..was given to the British ‘jackies’, who were easily the most popular.
1922 S. E. Pickett in L. L. Dock et al. Hist. Amer. Red Cross Nursing 669 American jackies, many of whom had not seen an American girl for three years, came alongside and took the nurses ashore.
2003 G. Harrar Trouble with Jeremy Chance 105 When I looked to the harbor I saw two lines of jackies from the ship running double quick to help.
2. slang. Gin. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun]
bottled lightning1713
gin1713
royal bob1722
diddle1725
strike-fire1725
tittery1725
max1728
maxim1739
strip-me-naked1751
eye-water1755
sky blue1755
lightning1781
Jacky1800
ribbon1811
Daffy's elixir1821
sweet-stuff1835
tiger's milk1850
juniper1857
cream of the wilderness1858
satin1864
Twankay1900
panther1931
mother's ruin1933
needle and pin1937
1800 Morning Herald 16 Apr. 3/1 Got up at eight o'clock—had a drap of Jackey.
1819 London Lit. Gaz. 6 Nov. 715/3 Where jacky's drank until the senses reel.
1878 W. S. Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore i. 4 I've snuff and tobaccy and excellent jacky.
1921 A. C. Inman Diary 21 June (1985) I. ii. 188 About prohibition. I have seen more drunks around the streets than before. They get drunk on jackey.
1936 T. Burke Vagabond Minstrel v. 132 Hoy, mother, what of us all? I'm for a drop o' jackey.
3. slang.
a. Australian (offensive). Usually more fully Jacky Jacky. (A stereotypical or contemptuous term for) an Australian Aboriginal person, or Australian Aboriginal people considered collectively. Chiefly as a generic nickname used by some white people. Cf. binghi n., Mary n.1 3.
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the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [noun]
New Hollander1697
Australian1815
blackfellow1827
aboriginal1828
Jacky Jacky1845
nigger1845
Australoid1869
murri1884
Abo1908
binghi1933
boong1941
1845 Portland Gaz. 1 July 3/2 Jacky Jacky suddenly turned round and slipped a large jagged spear in his wamera.
1862 Sydney Morning Herald 5 Feb. 3/4 It appears by their statement that one ‘walk-about-Jacky’ and two others met the boy one evening, killed and then threw him into a waterhole.
1872 Glimpses Life Victoria 24Jacky-Jacky’ roamed over the country.
1944 W. 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.
1968 F. Rose Austral. Revisited 226 They get my back up because of their attitude towards the Aborigines…Jackie's all right, provided you treat him decently.
2010 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 7 Mar. 16 A study of Aboriginal history based less on the model of Jacky Jacky and more on the perspectives of indigenous leaders.
b. Australian and New Zealand. to sit up like Jacky (and variants): to sit up straight or with confidence; to behave properly.Sometimes perhaps with reference to the naivety or ingenuousness which some stereotypical representations present as characteristic of Australian Aboriginal people; cf. sense 3a.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > upright
to sit upa1535
to sit up1848
to sit up like Jacky1918
to sit tall1976
1918 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Sun 22 May Sitting up there like Jackie, with every body gaping at you, don't suit me.
1923 Brisbane Courier 17 Nov. 18/9 We are told we can't walk or motor into love, or just sit up like Jacky and let love come to us.
1939 Dubbo (Austral.) Liberal 12 Dec. 4/3 The Inspector added that he believed in discipline, not that discipline which meant ‘sitting up like Jacky’ in the class, but doing a job as it should be done.
1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 106 To sit there like Jacky in front of a mob of grinning, barracking station hands..made me feel a perfect fool.
1981 L. Marriott Life in Gorge 49 The sight of Avery, sitting up like Jackie, trundling up the road..without a clue how close to death he had been, didn't seem to make us feel any better.
2004 Canberra Times (Nexis) 29 Jan. a16 This made the journos sit up like Jacky.
4. Australian. The laughing kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae.Cf. Jack n.2 37c, jackass n.1 4, Jacko n. 1.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae > dacelo novaeguineae (kookaburra)
kingfisher1440
laughing jackass1798
settler's clock1827
jackass1844
goburra1860
Jack1863
kookaburra1890
Jacky1898
Jacko1907
kooka1933
1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Sept. 14/4 I have four tame ‘jackies’ which roam about a large garden.
1918 Aussie: Austral. Soldiers' Mag. Feb. 12/1 There's the ‘Jackies’ laugh and the ‘Coo-ee’ call. They echo and ring in the hearts of us all.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 July 21/2 Jacky left hurriedly and didn't return for his dinner.
1964 N. Austral. Monthly Sept. 12 A small brown snake..with a jackass (kookaburra) in pursuit… Jacky juggled it around for a while until he got its head in his beak.
2011 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 9 May 16 He says small kookaburras are called jackys and when they stand they have very straight backs.

Compounds

ˈjacky-bird n. Obsolete a tame bird used as a decoy for catching wild birds in a net; = playbird n. at play n. Compounds 2.
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1897 R. Kearton With Nature & Camera 277 A live one [sc. a 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.
jacky-breezer n. English regional Obsolete rare a dragonfly.
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a1852 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 25 Jacky-breezer, the dragon-fly.
jacky screamer n. Obsolete the swift, Apus apus.
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1861 J. G. Wood Nat. Hist. Picture Bk.: Mammalia 42 The swifts..are popularly known by the name of ‘Jacky-screamers’.
1884 S. H. Peabody Cecil's Bks. Nat. Hist. ii. 17 The Swifts had their nests in every roof, and the ‘Jacky Screamers’ used to hunt for flies in the streets.
jacky winter n. a small grey-brown songbird, Microeca fascinans (family Petroicidae), which is common in Australia and New Guinea; also called brown flycatcher.Originally a local Australian name that was imitative of the call, but now accepted as standard in international lists.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Muscicapinae > microeca leucophaea (jacky winter)
jacky winter1883
post-sitter1901
post-boy1911
spinks1945
1883 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 15 Dec. 1155/4 I had reason to believe that a cuckoo had been reared in the nest of a ‘Jacky Winter’.
1969 A. 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.
2016 Border Chron. (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 Mar. A fan-tailed cuckoo, white-fronted chats.., owlet nightjars and a Jacky winter all proved very photogenic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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