jockeyn.
/ˈdʒɒki/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑki/ 1.
a. A diminutive or familiar by-form of the name Jock or John, usually with the sense ‘little Jock, Jacky, Johnny’; hence, applicable (contemptuously) to any man of the common people (chiefly Scottish); also, a lad; an understrapper. (Cf. Jack n.2 2.)
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt > male
houndOE
churlc1300
pagec1385
jockeya1529
sincanterc1540
cullion1575
cur1600
swabber1612
codworm1615
bob-taila1625
pompilliona1625
duck's meata1627
swab1687
person1704
hallion1789
jackeen1810
peat1818
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun]
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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
a1529 J. Skelton Against Scottes (1843) 90 Kynge Iamy, Iemmy, Iocky my io.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 35 Iockey [1598 Iockey, a1548 Hall Chron. Iack] of Norfolke be not so bould, For Dickon thy master is bought and sould. View more context for this quotation
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 142 What could Lesly have done then with a few untrain'd, unarmed Jockeys, if we had been true among our selves?
1795 E. Burke Let. to W. Elliot in Wks. VII. 351 A jockey of Norfolk [see quot. 1597] who was inspired with the resolute ambition of becoming a citizen of France.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 54 ‘You're Dombey's jockey, a'nt you?’ said the first man. ‘I'm in Dombey's House, Mr. Clark,’ returned the boy.
b. transferred. Of a thing. Cf. fellow n. III., lad n.1, chap n.3
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object
thingOE
bodya1398
objecta1398
substance1525
cheat1567
solidity1604
article1618
material objecta1651
res extensa1652
extensum1678
businessa1684
animal1729
materiate1755
affair1763
thingy1787
fellow1816
concern1824
jockey1827
toy1895
yoke1910
doojigger1927
bitch1951
1827 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 24 June Some apple dumplings were placed on the table, and my man..burst forth with ‘Them's the jockies for me!’
2. A strolling minstrel or beggar; a vagabond. Scottish. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar
beggara1250
bidder1362
mendinantc1395
mendivaunt1395
craver1406
thigger1424
gangrela1450
mendicant1474
mendiant1483
eremite1495
Lazarus?a1513
truandals1523
bellyterc1540
clapperdudgeon1567
beggar-man1608
maunder1609
maunderer1611
Abraham cove1612
eleemosynary1643
mumpera1652
jockey1685
progger1685
asker1708
thigster1710
prog1828
shooler1830
cadger1851
panhandler1893
Weary Willie1896
schlepper1901
plinger1904
peg-legger1915
tapper1930
clochard1940
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1685 G. Sinclair Satans Invisible World Discovered xvii. 123 He..turned a vagrant fellow, like a Jockie, gaining, Meal, Flesh, and Money by his Charms.
a1712 G. Martine Reliquiæ Divi Andreae (1797) i. 3 They are called by others, and by themselves jockies, who go about begging, and use still to recite the sluggornes.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. vii. 102 The tribes of gypsies, jockies, or cairds.
a. One who manages or has to do with horses; one who deals in horses, a horse-dealer. Obsolete or dialect.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in horses
romonger1222
horse-mongera1400
cosser14..
corser?c1430
horse-corser1552
jockey1640
horse-coper1681
horse-jockey1744
horse-dealer1761
macquignon1798
horse-trader1811
coper1825
horse-cadger1886
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager
horse-keeperc1440
horse marshal1508
horse-master?1523
jockey1640
guarda-caballo1808
pony-man1851
pony boy1858
horseman1882
tackman1885
barn-boss1902
1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. C2v Let my fine Lords Talke o' their Horse-tricks, and their Jockies, that Can out-talke them.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 4 Dec. (1976) IX. 384 I and W. Hewer and a friend, a jockey, of his, did go about to see several pairs of horses for my coach.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Jockey, one who manages and deals in Horses.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. i. ii. 7 If I had a mind to sell my mule, he was acquainted with a very honest jocky who would buy her.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 484 Perhaps I design to buy a horse for my riding... I know there are enow to be had in town, and the jockeys will cheat one egregiously.
1841 T. B. Macaulay Warren Hastings in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 191 The crime..was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.
b. (From the character attributed to horse-dealers.) A crafty or fraudulent bargainer; a cheat. (Cf. jockey v. 1.)
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]
feature14..
frauderc1475
prowler1519
lurcher1528
defrauder1552
frauditor1553
taker-upc1555
verserc1555
fogger1564
Jack-in-the-box1570
gilenyer1590
foist1591
rutter1591
crossbiter1592
sharker1594
shark1600
bat-fowler1602
cheater1606
foister1610
operator1611
fraudsman1613
projector1615
smoke-sellera1618
decoy1618
firkera1626
scandaroon1631
snapa1640
cunning shaver1652
knight of industrya1658
chouse1658
cheat1664
sharper1681
jockey1683
rooker1683
fool-finder1685
rookster1697
sheep-shearer1699
bubbler1720
gyp1728
bite1742
swindler1770
pigeon1780
mace1781
gouger1790
needle1790
fly-by-night1796
sharp1797
skinner1797
diddler1803
mace cove1811
mace-gloak1819
macer1819
flat-catcher1821
moonlight wanderer1823
burner1838
Peter Funk1840
Funk1842
pigeoner1849
maceman1850
bester1856
fiddler1857
highway robber1874
bunco-steerer1875
swizzler1876
forty1879
flim-flammer1881
chouser1883
take-down1888
highbinder1890
fraud1895
Sam Slick1897
grafter1899
come-on1905
verneuker1905
gypster1917
chiseller1918
tweedler1925
rorter1926
gazumper1932
chizzer1935
sharpie1942
sharpster1942
slick1959
slickster1965
rip-off artist1968
shonky1970
rip-off merchant1971
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 615 They are meer Jockies in the Art of Wiving, and will Higgle for the other Hundred Pound in Portion.
1777 Gamblers 6 The growing Jockey, or the man of Dice.
1790 Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 25) Jockey,..also a cheat.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun] > sent ahead with message
jockey1643
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of a chariot
carterc1374
charioteer1382
charet-man1535
chariot-man1577
coachman1582
charet-driver1591
wagoner1594
chareter1610
jockeya1719
chariot-driver1769
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of coach > postillion
postiliona1640
post boy1707
jockey1850
1643 Char. Oxf. Incendiary in Harl. Misc. (1745) V. 473/1 Two of Gondemar's Jockies, that posted between Whitehall and Madrid.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 439 The wise ancients..heapt up greater Honours on Pindar's Jockies, than on the Poet himself.
1850 [The usual name in South of Scotland for a postillion].
5.
a. spec. A professional rider in horse races. (The chief current sense.) dumb jockey: see quot. 1853 at dumb adj. 6.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider
skipjack1608
horse racerc1618
rider1632
stager1638
jockeya1684
horse-jockey1782
jock1826
equison1846
hoop1941
pilot1976
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1670 (1955) III. 556 We returnd over New-market-heath,..the Jockies breathing their fine barbs & racers, & giving them their heates.
1693 London Gaz. No. 2845/4 A Jockey's Saddle stitched with green Silk.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3928/4 A Plate of 30l. value will be run for on Nottingham Course, Jockies to ride, to carry 10 Stone weight.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 221 Prepares for meals as jockies take a sweat.
1809 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. Nov. 150 The jockies whipp'd, the horses ran.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 210 As jockeys meet upon a race-course.
b. transferred. A driver of a motor vehicle. Frequently preceded by a noun used attributively. So garage jockey, a garage attendant. Chiefly North American.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle
automobilist1896
motorist1896
autoist1899
chauffeur1899
motor-carist1899
motor driver1902
jockey1912
drive1999
1912 Collier's 28 Sept. 11/2 Some are, so to speak, ‘gentlemen jockeys’, and own, enter, and drive their own cars for the fun of the thing.
1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Nov. 72/2 Jerking me into the cab and telling the jockey to go to the Penn Station.
1936 Daily Herald 5 Aug. 8/4 Here is a short list of busmen's slang phrases:..Jockey (Driver).
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §723/2 Automobile racer, auto or buzzer jockey,..speed jockey,..suicide jockey.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §723/4 Motorcycle racer, broadsider, jockey,..motor jockey.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §765/2 Commercial driver (bus, taxicab, truck),..jockey, motor jockey.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §765/5 Truck driver, truck jockey or spinner... Spec. juice jockey, a gasoline-truck driver; grunt-and-squeal jockey, a stock hauler;..suicide jockey, a nitro-glycerine hauler.
1945 Amer. Speech 20 148/1 Jeep jockey, truck driver.
1954 Chicago Tribune 20 July a. 17/1 Trolley jockey gets even with slowpokes.
1968 Drive Spring 113 The driver of any heavy-load vehicle is known as the pilot or jockey.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 37/3 (advt.) Executive 2 bedroom, 2 baths professionally decorated, overlooking rose garden, pool treed ravine. Doorman and car jockey.
1972 National Geographic Aug. 209/1 Sweat-streaked truck jockey.
1973 J. Cleary Ransom i. 33 There had been no trouble with the garage jockey. He had been lounging in a chair in the tiny office.
c. = disc jockey n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of
co-host1908
announcer1922
newsreader1925
race-reader1926
newscaster1930
sportscaster1930
quizzee1933
school broadcaster1937
commentator1938
racecaster1938
sportcaster1938
femcee1940
record jockey1940
disc jockey1941
narrator1941
deejay1946
colourman1947
anchorman1948
host1948
jock1952
speakerine1957
presenter1959
linkman1960
anchorwoman1961
rock jock1961
anchor1962
jockey1963
voice-over1966
anchorperson1971
outside broadcaster1971
news anchor1975
talk-master1975
satcaster1982
1963 B. W. Aldiss Airs of Earth 69 We stayed with the jocular jockey, hoping to catch a news bulletin, as I drove south.
1971 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 10/1 The same 30 turns. Different jockeys. Different stations, but no real choice.
1972 P. Black Biggest Aspidistra iii. iv. 179 Housewives' Choice, a favourite shop-window for records and jockeys from 1946 to 1967.
6. ‘A self-acting apparatus carried on the front tub of a set, for releasing it from the hauling rope at a certain point’ (Midland Coal Field).
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining
7. Short for jockey-boot n., jockey-pulley n., jockey-sleeve n., jockey-wheel n.: see Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > high or long > types of
jockey-boot1683
top-boot1768
Cossack boot1805
wellington boot1815
Hessian boot1834
jockey1851
Napoleon1853
Napoleon boot1860
jockey-leg1862
larrigan1886
kamik1891
mukluk1898
cruiser1902
jockey-back1909
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > other
jace1399
loopa1475
shakers1506
aglet1530
nerve1531
pipe1533
targeting1563
pinion1583
pinioning1597
tzitzit1618
loop-lace1632
button1671
tip1681
fal-lal1703
falbala1705
furbelow1706
jewelling1718
weeper1724
pompom1748
chiffons1765
foliage-trimming1818
mancheron1822
piping1825
manchette1835
patte1835
streamer1838
waterfall1841
paillette1843
brandenburgs1873
motif1882
patch1884
smocking1888
jockey1896
strapping1898
steel1899
sparklet1902
slotting1923
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 43/1 Top boots (they're called ‘Jockeys’ in the trade).
1896 Godey's Mag. Feb. 211/1 Jockeys cut in fanciful shape are set into the shoulders of many of the sleeves.
1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 118/2 Jockey,..a flat trimming applied over the outer part of the shoulder of a dress and having the lower border free.
1963 A. Gernsheim Fashion & Reality i. 27 By 1841 tight sleeves were..often headed by a mancheron (later called jockey).
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
(a) That is a jockey.
(i) (In senses 3 – 5.)
jockey-boy n.
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1816 Sporting Mag. 48 36 The anecdote..of poor Jack Clark the jockey-boy, struck us most forcibly.
jockey-groom n.
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1708 London Gaz. No. 4441/4 John Hague, a Jockey-Groom,..has lately ran away without accounting..for Mony receiv'd by him.
jockey-lord n.
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1679 T. Shadwell True Widow i. 7 He is..a Led-eater..and dry-jester to Gameing, and Jocky-Lords.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 23 June 193 I grew ashamed of the company of Jockey Lords.
jockey-parson n.
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1837 M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. ii. 33 A sporting parson is quite as good as a jockey parson surely.
jockey-rider n.
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1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 192 Force, enough to fly; And beat a Tuscan running Horse, Whose Jocky-Rider is all Spurs.
(ii) (In sense 1.)
jockey-pedlar n.
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a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 223 England deserved worse and heard worse than these jockey pedlars [Scots] that chaffered away their King.
(b) Belonging to or used by a jockey.
(i)
jockey-frock n.
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1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. iv. 93 His outer garment was a jockey frock.
jockey-pad n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Jockey-pad,..a knee-pad on the forepart of a saddle.
jockey-seat n.
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1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) x. 161 The latter with a regular jockey-seat riding most comfortably.
jockey-whip n.
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1804 European Mag. 45 58/2 Time..changes the youth to Harlequin, transforms his jockey-whip to a wooden sword.
(ii) Applied to a style of boot.
jockey-back n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > high or long > types of
jockey-boot1683
top-boot1768
Cossack boot1805
wellington boot1815
Hessian boot1834
jockey1851
Napoleon1853
Napoleon boot1860
jockey-leg1862
larrigan1886
kamik1891
mukluk1898
cruiser1902
jockey-back1909
1909 Boot Catal. Gentleman's brown calf lace, whole golosh, jockey back.
jockey-leg n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > high or long > types of
jockey-boot1683
top-boot1768
Cossack boot1805
wellington boot1815
Hessian boot1834
jockey1851
Napoleon1853
Napoleon boot1860
jockey-leg1862
larrigan1886
kamik1891
mukluk1898
cruiser1902
jockey-back1909
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxvi. §4658 Skins, kips, fronts, shoe legs, jockey legs, cordovan, grained calf.
(c) Practised by a jockey (sense 3b), fraudulent, cheating.
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jockey trade n.
jockey trick n.
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1770 in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth College (1891) I. 149 It can't prosper,..it's all a jockey trick from first to last.
1801 J. Wolcot Epist. to Count Rumford in Wks. (1812) V. 144 Try every jockey trick to pass thy fame.
b.
jockey-cut adj.
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1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. ii. 13 The men..wore jockey-cut coats.
jockey-like adj.
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1765 Universal Mag. 37 371/1 The State Jockeys..all, jockey-like, whip to get the best places.
C2. Special combinations.
jockey-bar n. (see quot.).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > bars
fire bar1668
water bar1843
jockey-bar1887
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Jockey-bar, the broad flat top bar of a kitchen grate.
1894 H. Caine Manxman ii. i. 51 The kettle was singing on the jockey-bar.
jockey-boot n. a top-boot formerly worn by jockeys.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > high or long > types of
jockey-boot1683
top-boot1768
Cossack boot1805
wellington boot1815
Hessian boot1834
jockey1851
Napoleon1853
Napoleon boot1860
jockey-leg1862
larrigan1886
kamik1891
mukluk1898
cruiser1902
jockey-back1909
1683 London Gaz. No. 1810/4 A pair of Jockey-Boots.
1735 J. Swift Receipt to Stella in Wks. II. 219 All the Squires from nine Miles round,..With Jocky Boots, and Silver Spurs.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 525 Jockey, hunting..and dress boots.
jockey-box n. ‘a box in a wagon, underneath the driver's seat, for carrying small articles’ ( Cent. Dict. 1890).
jockey briefs n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underpants > for men
boxer shorts1930
boxers1946
jockey shorts1951
Y-front1953
jockey briefs1966
shreddies1989
tighty-whities1990
1966 J. Gardner Amber Nine ix. 130 He stripped to his jockey briefs.
jockey-cap n. a peaked cap of the style worn by jockeys.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > peaked > types of
tiar1513
tiara1555
jockey-cap1748
Mary Queen of Scots cap1813
baseball cap1865
baseball hat1867
cheese-cutter1870
fore and aft1888
staff cap1902
Mao cap1967
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 193 Having on a jockey-cap, one side of the peak was shaved off..by a ball.
1837 M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. iii. 43 Two young 'squires in jockey caps.
jockey-cart n. [ < its motion] local a spring-cart.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > two-wheeled
timwhisky1768
whisky1769
gig1791
rib chair1795
shandry1802
trap1807
tilbury1814
dennet1818
chaise-cart1821
spring-cart1823
go-cart1824
jockey-cart1840
guinguette1852
Catherine1861
croydon1880
stolkjaerre1885
Ralli car1886
1840 F. Trollope Michael Armstrong II. xvii. 147 [No] conveyance more rough and rude than Sir Matthew's jockey cart, which was constructed with excellent and efficient springs.
jockey club n. (a) a club or association for the promotion and regulation of horse racing; spec. the Jockey Club established at Newmarket, which is the supreme authority in Great Britain on all matters connected with horse racing; (b) a toilet water releasing chiefly rose and jasmine scents.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > officials
jockey club1775
clerk of the course1829
National Hunt1866
National Hunt Committee1873
clocker1895
stipe1922
outrider1947
1775 (title) An Appeal to the Jockey Club; or, a True Narrative of the late Affair between Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Walker.
1809 Sporting Mag. 33 108 The unerring scales of the Jockey-Club.
1855 G. W. S. Piesse Art of Perfumery 122 Jockey Club Bouquet.
1859 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (1860) 396 I..used cologne, hair oil, and scented my handkerchief with ‘jockey-club’.
1872 M. Holley My Opinions (1891) 22 That I should take your jockey club and hair oil, and use 'em all myself.
1886 Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire & W. G. Craven in Earl of Suffolk et al. Racing & Steeple-chasing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 56 Tradition..assigns to the year 1750 the origin of the Jockey Club.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 716/1 A new fragrant Toilet Water in Jockey Club, White Rose, Stephanotis [etc.].
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 521/1 Highly concentrated Essences... Jockey Club, Maiglöckchen, [etc.].
1941 W. A. Poucher Perfumes, Cosmetics & Soaps (ed. 6) II. vii. 281 Jockey Club... Bergamot oil... Jasmin... Rose... Tuberose... Mace oil... Civet extract.
1973 Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 6 Nov. 29/2 The following..of our own exclusive scents..are presently available: 1 Jockey Club, 2 Number Six, [etc.].
jockey-coat n. a kind of great-coat (? formerly worn by horse-dealers).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > overcoat > types of
pee1483
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surtout1686
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pea-jacket1717
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jockey-coata1745
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Polonese coat1774
pea coat1790
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benjamin1810
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pilot jacket1839
pilot coat1840
Petersham1842
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Chesterfield1852
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Inverness overcoat1865
immensikoff1870
Ulster1876
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macfarlane1920
a1745 J. Swift Helter Skelter 10 With whips and spurs so neat; And with jocky-coats complete.
1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. July 344/2 He was dressed in a long dun jocky coat.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 17 His dress was also that of a horse-dealer—a close buttoned jockey-coat, or wrap-rascal, as it was then termed, with huge metal buttons.
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jockey-gear n. a set of jockey-wheels (see below) with their connected mechanism.
jockey-pulley n. a small wheel which ‘rides’ upon the top edge of a larger one, used for obtaining a high speed, or for keeping a rope in the groove of a grooved wheel; an ‘idle’ pulley or wheel which ‘rides’ upon the belt or rope between two working pulleys so as to increase its contact surface upon these and to tighten it up when slack.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > pulleys
pulleya1586
tension-roller1835
idle pulley1873
jockey-pulley1893
1893 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 4 715 A jockey pulley attached to the main frame is arranged to take up the slack of the chain.
1896 E. T. Carter Mot. Power Electr. Mach. 508 The advantage in the use of a jockey pulley is that the arc of contact of the belt on the working pulleys can be increased beyond what is obtainable with a free belt, thus shortening the necessary distance between the pulley centres.
jockey shorts n. short under-drawers for men.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underpants > for men
boxer shorts1930
boxers1946
jockey shorts1951
Y-front1953
jockey briefs1966
shreddies1989
tighty-whities1990
1951 G. Marx Let. 18 Jan. (1967) 194 I remember in 1932 telling Truman to stick to the haberdashery business, that there was a fortune in shirts and jockey shorts.
a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) 210 I took to wearing tight jockey shorts.
1971 B. Malamud Tenants 210 The bridegroom, in a smoked raffia skirt from waist to knees over his jockey shorts.
jockey-sleeve n. (a) a sleeve like that of a jockey-coat; (b) a sleeve or free casing riding on a spindle or shaft, and carrying part of a train of mechanism; used in some forms of electric arc-lights.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of
poke1402
foresleeve1538
long sleeve1538
lumbard1542
puller out1543
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French sleeve1592
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stock-sleeve1611
hoop-sleeve1614
puff sleevec1632
short sleeve1639
hanging sleeve1659
engageants1690
jockey-sleeve1692
pudding-sleeve1704
Amadis1814
gigot1824
leg of mutton1824
bishop sleeve1829
mutton-leg sleeve1830
balloon sleeve1837
gigot-sleeve1837
bag-sleeve1844
pagoda sleeve1850
mameluke sleeve1853
angel sleeve1859
elbow-sleeve1875
sling-sleeve1888
sleevelet1889
pagoda1890
bell-sleeve1892
kimono sleeve1919–20
dolman1934
1692 London Gaz. No. 2767/4 A buff-colour Cloth Coat with Jockey-sleeves.
jockey spider n. Australian a venomous black spider, Latrodectus hasseltii, the female of which is distinguished by a red stripe on the upper side of its abdomen; also = katipo n.; also elliptically jockey.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > family Theridiidae or genus Theridion > latrodectus hasselti (red-backed spider)
red-backed spider1895
jockey spider1933
red-back1933
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > family Theridiidae or genus Theridion > latrodectus katipo (red-backed spider)
katipo1843
jockey spider1933
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Nov. 20/4 Latrodectus, which we call the ‘redback’ or ‘jockey’.
1936 K. C. McKeown Spider Wonders Austral. xi. 155 In the Jockey Spider the red stripe is a direct and unmistakable warning.
1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby ii. 30 An infant bitten by a ‘jockey’..died six hours later.
1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft vi. 129 The red-back spider, or katipo, also called the ‘jockey’ spider, definitely is harmful.
1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 236/2 The best-known Australian member [of the comb-footed group of spiders] is the red-back, red-spot, or jockey spider, Latrodectus hasseltii, with a distribution from Arabia to New Guinea, the whole of Australia, the Pacific Islands, Hawaii and New Zealand; in the last-named country it is called ‘katipo’ (night~stinger).
jockey-stick n. U.S. (see quots.).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > for connecting animals
tugwithe?1523
coupling-strapa1732
incatenation1762
coupling-reins1795
ox-riem1817
trek-tow1822
butt chain1857
trek chain1878
jockey-stick1887
1887 E. B. Custer Tenting on Plains xii. 352 [In driving a prairie schooner] a small hickory stick, about five feet long, called the jockey-stick, not unlike a rake-handle, is stretched between a pilot [mule] and his mate.
1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl x. 140 An iron ‘jockey-stick’ ran from the near leader's harness to the off leader's bit—this pushed or pulled his head as his mate moved in answer to the ‘jerk line’.
1968 R. F. Adams Western Words (rev. ed.) Jockey stick, in freighting, a hickory stick,..stretched between a pilot mule or horse and its mate.
jockey strap n. = jockstrap n. 1. ? obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > jock strap
supporter1888
jockey strap1896
jockstrap1897
athletic supporter1899
athletic support1911
jock1952
1896 Crescent (Brooklyn, N.Y.) 1 Dec. 33/1 (advt.) Suspensories, Jockey Straps.
1909 Spalding's Athletic Library (N.Y.) Group XV. No. 333 (advt.) Bike Jockey Strap Suspensory.
jockey-weight n. (see quot.).
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1892 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Jockey Weight, a weight which is slid along a lever, in a weighing or testing machine, for purposes of precise adjustment.
jockey-wheel n. (a) = jockey-pulley n.; (b) a small adjustable wheel at the nose of a caravan.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > of specific type or position
cartwheelc1386
truckle1459
trundle1564
clog-wheel1575
trindle1594
coach-wheel1647
roulette1659
roller1763
horizontal wheel1794
castora1800
castor-wheel1805
artillery wheel1834
training wheel1848
trailing wheel1850
spider-wheel1868
front wheel1878
trailer1884
trendle1887
wire wheel1907
square wheels1924
jockey-wheel1952
1952 Motor Man. (ed. 34) xiii. 248 Car and caravan can be connected or disconnected in a matter of a few seconds. To help this operation, the forward end of the van chassis is provided with a jockey wheel to take the forward weight.
1966 Caravanning (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 12 The nose weight of a caravan can vary from a few pounds to over a hundredweight. On most vans there is a telescopic jockey wheel to facilitate raising the nose.
Derivatives
ˈjockeydom n. (a) the world of jockeys, jockeys collectively; (b) the position or occupation of a jockey.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > occupation of
jockeydom1869
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > collectively
jockeyshipc1820
jockeydom1869
1869 Punch 10 July 10/1 The dearest interests of jockeydom stand in jeopardy.
1878 L. Wingfield Lady Grizel I. ii. 28 A man who never..spends his nights at hazard, or affects jockeydom at Newmarket.
ˈjockeyish adj. like a jockey, ‘horsy’.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [adjective] > rider
jockeyish1838
1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 326 But this, though sufficiently jockeyish, leaves out Hector himself, to make room for his horses.
ˈjockeyism n. the style, phraseology, or practice of jockeys.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups
indenture Englisha1568
water language1702
jockeyism1802
slum1812
Polari1846
stable-language1856
scientificism1860
water-slang1860
Oxfordish1863
galley-slang1867
pitmatic1885
commercialese1910
legalese1911
academese1917
Hollywoodese1920
businessese1921
Hollywoodism1925
trade unionese1927
advertisingese1929
officese1935
sociologese1940
Whitehallese1940
Newspeak1949
patter1949
Pentagonese1950
educationese1958
computerese1960
managementese1961
spacespeak1963
computer-speak1968
techno-jargon1972
business-speak1973
Eurospeak1975
Euro-jargon1976
technospeak1976
doctorspeak1977
corporate-speak1978
medspeak1979
mellowspeak1979
technobabble1981
teenspeak1982
management-speak1986
codespeak1987
1802 Sporting Mag. 20 273 The slang of jockeyism.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xxiv. 238 A mixture of slang and jockeyism.
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jockeyv.
/ˈdʒɒki/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑki/ 1.
a. transitive. To play the jockey with (see jockey n. 3b); to gain the advantage of by adroit management or trickery; to trick, outwit, overreach, take in, ‘do’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > outwit, get the better of
undergoa1325
circumvene1526
crossbitec1555
circumvent1564
gleek1577
outreach1579
fob1583
overreach1594
fub1600
encompassa1616
out-craftya1616
out-knave1648
mump1649
jockey1708
come1721
nail1735
slew1813
Jew1825
to sew up1837
to play (it) low down (on)1864
outfox1872
beat1873
outcraft1879
to get a beat on1889
old soldier1892
to put one over1905
to get one over on1912
to get one over1921
outsmart1926
shaft1959
1708 Yorkshire-Racers 3 And as you jockey'd us, we jockey'd you.
c1740 A. Allen MS. Dict. (at cited word) To jockey a Man, is to impose upon, to cheat, overreach; to deal wth any one, as Jockeys usually doe wth all ye world. Nor is there any more deceitful race of Men than Jockeys, in their Sale of Horse flesh.
1785 R. Cumberland Observer No. 96. ⁋6 Let us see if any bishop shall jockey us with the like jade's trick for the future.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiv. 309 The way in which she jockied Jos, and which she described with infinite fun.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iii. 189 Whether the business in hand be to..promote a railway, or jockey a railway.
b. With adv. or prep. To get (out, in, away, etc.) by trickery; to cheat or do out of.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > trick out of
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juggle1531
bull1532
defeata1538
cozen1602
Don Diego1607
foista1640
sham1681
jockey1719
fling1749
short1942
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something
beguile1394
wrongc1484
delude1493
licka1500
to wipe a person's nose1577
uncle1585
cheat1597
cozen1602
to bob of1605
to bob out of1605
gull1612
foola1616
to set in the nick1616
to worm (a person) out of1617
shuffle1627
to baffle out of1652
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trepan1662
bubble1668
trick1698
to bamboozle out of1705
fling1749
jockey1772
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twiddle1825
to diddle out of1829
nig1829
to chisel out of1848
to beat out1851
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duff1863
flim-flam1890
1719 in T. Gordon Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 117 They would at any time Jockey away a small Tenement in Abraham's Bosom, for a rich Manor in England.
1772 Town & Country Mag. 83 When he finds that I have jockied him out of his mistress.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 41 Have we penniless directors..jockeying their shares through the market?
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxiii. 325 When his Majesty, Louis XIV., jockeyed his grandson on to the throne of Spain.
1865 Sat. Rev. 25 Feb. 217/2 Having been jockeyed into a miscarriage of justice.
c. To play tricks with; to manage or manipulate in a tricky way.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > treat cunningly [verb (transitive)] > manage with cunning
puppet1840
manipulate1862
jockey1890
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or control > [verb (transitive)] > in a tricky way
jockey1890
1890 Nature 16 Oct. 587 In Foucault's pendulum a very slight jockeying can make the thing go as we wish.
1893 Evid. Court Martial H.M.S. Victoria Admiral Tryon disapproved of any jockeying the engines.
1894 J. Knight D. Garrick vii. 104 Quin..had been controlled or jockeyed.
d. intransitive. To play the jockey, play tricks, act fraudulently; to aim at an advantage by adroit management or artifice. Frequently in to jockey for position, to try to gain an advantageous position (in a race, contest, etc.).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)]
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defraudc1384
to take (the) advantagea1393
false1393
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lurch1593
fog1621
imposture1624
rook1637
impone1640
cheat1647
chicane1671
humbug1753
fineer1765
gag1781
mountebank1814
jockeya1835
sniggle1837
barney1848
straw1851
honeyfuggle1856
skinch1891
finagle1926
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)] > for advantage
jostle1618
to jockey for position1908
a1835 Comic song, ‘The Fox went out’ He cut up the goose with a carving knife, And the little ones jockeyed for the bones, O!
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxiv. 230 An event for which she had been jockeying ever since she set eyes on young Newcome.
1899 Daily News 21 Oct. 3/4 When the preparatory gun was fired..both yachts were jockeying under their mainsails, jibs, and staysails.
1908 Daily Chron. 16 July 8/1 The fastest time was that by J. Matthews..but that counts for little in a cycle race owing to the..jockeying..for position in the final sprint.
1955 Times 27 July 6/7 In Alberta when there was no jury, congestion was caused by lawyers jockeying for position in order to appear before the right judge.
1969 W. H. Auden City without Walls 105 They're jockeying for position round the first bend.
2.
a. intransitive. To ride as a jockey (in quot. 1767 contemptuous).
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride rapidly
runeOE
drivec1300
scurry1580
tantivy1681
to ride triumph1761
jockey1767
tivy1842
spank1843
rocket1862
to let out1889
1767 A. Seward Poems (1810) I. p. cxcvii She reads no curtain-lectures upon his jockying over to Nottingham to read the news three times a week.
1837 [implied in: M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. iii. 33 Unless Mr. Dalben thinks of bringing him up in the jockeying line. (at jockeying n. 1)].
b. transitive. To ride (a horse) in a race, as a jockey.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)]
jockey1825
1825 Sporting Mag. 16 273 Eclipse was then jockeyed by Sam Merrit.
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