单词 | jacky |
释义 | Jackyn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 24 ‘Jacky-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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. CompoundsΚΠ 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. ΚΠ a1852 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 25 Jacky-breezer, the dragon-fly. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1653 |
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