单词 | jockeying |
释义 | jockeyingn. 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). < n.a1770 |
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