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单词 jockeying
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jockeyingn.

/ˈdʒɒkɪɪŋ/
Etymology: < jockey v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of jockey v.
1. Horse-dealing; the riding and management of race-horses. Also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun]
runningeOE
horse-running1504
swift horse running?a1513
horse racingc1654
horse-coursing1764
jockeyinga1770
sport of kings1918
a1770 C. Smart Duellist 58 A thousand trifles not worth naming, In whoring, jockeying, and gaming.
1837 M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. iii. 33 Unless Mr. Dalben thinks of bringing him up in the jockeying line.
2. Adroit management for the purpose of gaining an advantage, esp. an unfair one; trickery, cheating.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving
swikingc1000
blindfolding?c1225
deceivancec1330
trechettingc1330
jugglingc1380
beguilingc1400
deceivingc1400
fagec1400
delusionc1420
sophisticationc1450
circumvention1534
illudinga1547
cheateryc1555
cheatingc1555
crossing1592
tricking1595
wiling?a1600
circumventing1603
practice1622
cheat1641
deluding1645
underdealing1649
amusement1658
conveyancing1676
bubbling1700
jockeyshipa1763
overreachinga1774
jockeying1779
beguilement1805
gaggery1819
trickstering1821
Jewing1842
wool-pulling1843
rigging1846
hoodwinking1858
old soldierism1866
old soldiering1867
fiddling1884
gold-bricking1901
wangling1911
finagling1926
hyping1968
1779 G. Williams Let. 28 Feb. in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1907) XLIII. 202 The Makers of Money sent it to there servants to purchas goods and thay knew it was to be out of circulation in a few months. It would be called by some Jockeing.
1807 Salmagundi 15 Oct. 329 In their zeal to get a good seat..a vast deal of jockeying and unfair play was shown.
1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee v, in Tales Fashionable Life V. 357 It's not called swindling, amongst gentlemen, who know the world—it's only jockeying—fine sport—and very honourable, to help a friend, at a dead lift.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv. 109 That turf where there is no more jockeying.
1897 W. M. Ramsay in Brit. Weekly 20 May 78 No one among us will ever look back to it without blushing for the jockeying by which it was effected.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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