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单词 jockeyship
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jockeyshipn.

Brit. /ˈdʒɒkɪʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑkiˌʃɪp/
Etymology: See -ship suffix.
1.
a. The art of a jockey; skill in horse racing. (Cf. horsemanship n.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > skill of
jockeyship1785
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 276 We justly boast At least superior jockeyship, and claim The honours of the turf as all our own.
1894 Daily News 16 Apr. 3/7 This defeat was probably due to the inferior jockeyship of his rider.
b. The practice of jockeying; trickery, artifice, adroit management for unfair advantage.
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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
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 111 To vie in jockey-ship or cunning at a bett.
1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury ix. 87 Jockey-ship, a term of reproach..frequently applied to the arts of those who sell horses.
1846 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 22 Aug. (1884) III Newmarket does not afford more..instances of jockeyship, than could be found in the secret history of episcopal promotion.
2. As a mock title for a jockey.
ΚΠ
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 233 If neither horse nor groom affect the squire, Where can at last his jockeyship retire?
3. Jockeys collectively.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > collectively
jockeyshipc1820
jockeydom1869
c1820 T. Chalmers Serm. The full assembled jockeyship of half a province muster together.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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