yellow jackn.¹

Brit.

/ˌjɛləʊ ˈdʒak/, U.S.

/ˌjɛloʊ ˈdʒæk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., jack n.⁴

Etymology: < yellow adj. + jack n.⁴

Now historical.

A yellow flag flown by a ship as a signal of quarantine. Cf. yellow flag n.² 1.Later occasionally with reference to flags flown on land.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > flag signalling > [noun] > signal flag > specific

black flag1583

yellow flag1587

red flag1748

yellow jack1753

Blue Peter1754

fire flag1798

recall1832

pilot jack1848

homeward-bound pennant1853

powder flag1864

paying-off pennant1869

Peter1890

storm flag1896

negative flag1897

blackball1966

1753 Bill Ships to perform Quarentine 3 The Master of every Ship..shall..be provided with a Yellow Jack with a Swallow Tail.

1853 Hunt's Yachting Mag. June 160 The Quarantine flag or Yellow Jack..is not at all required in the code itself, but of course it should be carried when going foreign.

1910 Our Navy (U.S.) Aug. 31/2 When the quartermaster..lowers the ‘Yellow Jack’, a cheer from all hands burst forth spontaneously.

2005 T. Gould Dis. Apart viii. 205 Denney aroused the patients' ire by hoisting the yellow jack, or emblem of quarantine, next to the United States flag.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

yellow Jackn.²

Brit.

/ˌjɛləʊ ˈdʒak/, U.S.

/ˌjɛloʊ ˈdʒæk/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Probably from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: yellow adj., proper name Jack.

Etymology: Probably < yellow adj. + the male forename Jack (see Jack n.²). Although it has sometimes been suggested that the compound originated in an extended (metonymic) use of yellow jack n.¹, there appears to be no evidence to support this suggestion.

Nautical slang. Now historical.

The viral disease yellow fever.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > yellow fever

yellow fever1738

black vomit1740

St. Domingo fever1822

yellow typhus1822

yellow Jack1832

vomito1833

Panama fever1849

1832 F. Chamier Life Sailor II. iii. 64 Four or five ships got a very unpleasant companion on board in the shape of ‘Yellow Jack’, as the sailors call the fever.

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iv. 103 Have seen three choleras, two army fevers, and yellow-jack without end.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 1 I knew a good deal..of South East America, and remembered that Yellow Jack was endemic.

1952 ‘C. S. Forester’ Lieutenant Hornblower xii. 175 They won't get yellow jack as easily as our men.

2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) vi. 215 Yellow fever (black vomit, yellow jack) and malaria (ague) were problems in tropical ports.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

yellow jackn.³

Brit.

/ˈjɛləʊ dʒak/, U.S.

/ˈjɛloʊ ˌdʒæk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., Jack n.²

Etymology: < yellow adj. + Jack n.² (compare sense 35c at that entry).

Originally: †the spot, Leiostomus xanthurus, a sciaenid fish found in the West Atlantic (obsolete). In later use: a large carangid fish found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, Carangoides bartholomaei, which is popular as a game and food fish and has yellow-brown fins and a silvery-yellow body that darkens with age.

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yellowtaila1622

cavally1634

horse-mackerela1705

yellow jack1851

carangoid1863

trevally1883

carangid1889

turrum1936

1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. II. Zool. 224 L. xanthurus, is found along the coast of South Carolina, where it is called yellowtail, or yellow Jack.

1887 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1885 xiii. 273 Names of the different species of food fish usually sold in the Key West market: Moonfish, pompano, yellow jack, grunt.

1952 E. Hemingway Old Man & Sea 34 Two fresh small tunas..hung on the two deepest lines like plummets and, on the others, he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack that had been used before.

2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 4 Feb. 4 We watched shoals of silver and canary-coloured yellow jacks swim close, looming large against the porthole.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

yellow jackn.⁴

Brit.

/ˈjɛləʊ dʒak/, U.S.

/ˈjɛloʊ ˌdʒæk/, Australian English

/ˈjɛloʊ dʒæk/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: yellow jacket n.

Etymology: Shortened < yellow jacket n.

Australian.

Any of various eucalypts having yellowish bark; = yellow jacket n. 3.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees

yellow box1662

gum tree1676

white gum tree1733

whip-stick1782

peppermint1790

red gum tree1790

red mahogany1798

white gum1798

box1801

blue gum1802

eucalyptus1809

box tree1819

black-butted gum1820

bloodwood1827

white ash1830

blackbutt1833

morrel1837

mountain ash1837

mallee scrub1845

apple gum1846

flooded gum1847

Moreton Bay ash1847

mallee1848

swamp gum1852

box-gum1855

manna gum1855

white top1856

river gum1860

grey box1861

woolly butt1862

marlock1863

fever tree1867

red ironbark1867

river white gum1867

karri1870

yellow jacket1876

eucalypt1877

yapunyah1878

coolibah1879

scribbly gum1883

forest mahogany1884

yellow jack1884

rose gum1885

Jimmy Low1887

nankeen gum1889

slaty gum1889

sugar-gum1889

apple box1890

Murray red gum1895

creek-gum1898

eucalyptian1901

forest red gum1904

river red gum1920

napunyah1921

whitewash gum1923

ghost gum1928

snow gum1928

Sydney blue gum1932

salmon gum1934

lapunyah1940

1884 Western Champion (Queensland) 22 Aug. The yellow bark eucalyptus is commonly called the ‘yellow jack’, and the areas upon which it is found are very much restricted in extent—thus rendering the tree very uncommon and singular.

1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor iv. 49 These trees called yellowjacks are soft wood, so white ants enclose them with earth walls and eat the wood out.

1943 A. Marshall in Coast to Coast 1942 14 I tied the horse to a yellowjack and crept towards the river.

2013 T. Creed Redstone Station xxxii. 264 The gums, bauhinias, wilgas and yellow jack trees were dense with bright new leaves and tipped with warm colour.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1753

n.²1832

n.³1851

n.⁴1884

单词	yellow jack
释义	yellow jackn.¹ Brit. /ˌjɛləʊ ˈdʒak/, U.S. /ˌjɛloʊ ˈdʒæk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., jack n.⁴ Etymology: < yellow adj. + jack n.⁴ Now historical. A yellow flag flown by a ship as a signal of quarantine. Cf. yellow flag n.² 1.Later occasionally with reference to flags flown on land. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > flag signalling > [noun] > signal flag > specific black flag1583 yellow flag1587 red flag1748 yellow jack1753 Blue Peter1754 fire flag1798 recall1832 pilot jack1848 homeward-bound pennant1853 powder flag1864 paying-off pennant1869 Peter1890 storm flag1896 negative flag1897 blackball1966 1753 Bill Ships to perform Quarentine 3 The Master of every Ship..shall..be provided with a Yellow Jack with a Swallow Tail. 1853 Hunt's Yachting Mag. June 160 The Quarantine flag or Yellow Jack..is not at all required in the code itself, but of course it should be carried when going foreign. 1910 Our Navy (U.S.) Aug. 31/2 When the quartermaster..lowers the ‘Yellow Jack’, a cheer from all hands burst forth spontaneously. 2005 T. Gould Dis. Apart viii. 205 Denney aroused the patients' ire by hoisting the yellow jack, or emblem of quarantine, next to the United States flag. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yellow Jackn.² Brit. /ˌjɛləʊ ˈdʒak/, U.S. /ˌjɛloʊ ˈdʒæk/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Probably from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: yellow adj., proper name Jack. Etymology: Probably < yellow adj. + the male forename Jack (see Jack n.²). Although it has sometimes been suggested that the compound originated in an extended (metonymic) use of yellow jack n.¹, there appears to be no evidence to support this suggestion. Nautical slang. Now historical. The viral disease yellow fever. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > yellow fever yellow fever1738 black vomit1740 St. Domingo fever1822 yellow typhus1822 yellow Jack1832 vomito1833 Panama fever1849 1832 F. Chamier Life Sailor II. iii. 64 Four or five ships got a very unpleasant companion on board in the shape of ‘Yellow Jack’, as the sailors call the fever. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iv. 103 Have seen three choleras, two army fevers, and yellow-jack without end. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 1 I knew a good deal..of South East America, and remembered that Yellow Jack was endemic. 1952 ‘C. S. Forester’ Lieutenant Hornblower xii. 175 They won't get yellow jack as easily as our men. 2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) vi. 215 Yellow fever (black vomit, yellow jack) and malaria (ague) were problems in tropical ports. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yellow jackn.³ Brit. /ˈjɛləʊ dʒak/, U.S. /ˈjɛloʊ ˌdʒæk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., Jack n.² Etymology: < yellow adj. + Jack n.² (compare sense 35c at that entry). Originally: †the spot, Leiostomus xanthurus, a sciaenid fish found in the West Atlantic (obsolete). In later use: a large carangid fish found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, Carangoides bartholomaei, which is popular as a game and food fish and has yellow-brown fins and a silvery-yellow body that darkens with age. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Carangidae (scads) > member of yellowtaila1622 cavally1634 horse-mackerela1705 yellow jack1851 carangoid1863 trevally1883 carangid1889 turrum1936 1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. II. Zool. 224 L. xanthurus, is found along the coast of South Carolina, where it is called yellowtail, or yellow Jack. 1887 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1885 xiii. 273 Names of the different species of food fish usually sold in the Key West market: Moonfish, pompano, yellow jack, grunt. 1952 E. Hemingway Old Man & Sea 34 Two fresh small tunas..hung on the two deepest lines like plummets and, on the others, he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack that had been used before. 2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 4 Feb. 4 We watched shoals of silver and canary-coloured yellow jacks swim close, looming large against the porthole. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yellow jackn.⁴ Brit. /ˈjɛləʊ dʒak/, U.S. /ˈjɛloʊ ˌdʒæk/, Australian English /ˈjɛloʊ dʒæk/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: yellow jacket n. Etymology: Shortened < yellow jacket n. Australian. Any of various eucalypts having yellowish bark; = yellow jacket n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees yellow box1662 gum tree1676 white gum tree1733 whip-stick1782 peppermint1790 red gum tree1790 red mahogany1798 white gum1798 box1801 blue gum1802 eucalyptus1809 box tree1819 black-butted gum1820 bloodwood1827 white ash1830 blackbutt1833 morrel1837 mountain ash1837 mallee scrub1845 apple gum1846 flooded gum1847 Moreton Bay ash1847 mallee1848 swamp gum1852 box-gum1855 manna gum1855 white top1856 river gum1860 grey box1861 woolly butt1862 marlock1863 fever tree1867 red ironbark1867 river white gum1867 karri1870 yellow jacket1876 eucalypt1877 yapunyah1878 coolibah1879 scribbly gum1883 forest mahogany1884 yellow jack1884 rose gum1885 Jimmy Low1887 nankeen gum1889 slaty gum1889 sugar-gum1889 apple box1890 Murray red gum1895 creek-gum1898 eucalyptian1901 forest red gum1904 river red gum1920 napunyah1921 whitewash gum1923 ghost gum1928 snow gum1928 Sydney blue gum1932 salmon gum1934 lapunyah1940 1884 Western Champion (Queensland) 22 Aug. The yellow bark eucalyptus is commonly called the ‘yellow jack’, and the areas upon which it is found are very much restricted in extent—thus rendering the tree very uncommon and singular. 1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor iv. 49 These trees called yellowjacks are soft wood, so white ants enclose them with earth walls and eat the wood out. 1943 A. Marshall in Coast to Coast 1942 14 I tied the horse to a yellowjack and crept towards the river. 2013 T. Creed Redstone Station xxxii. 264 The gums, bauhinias, wilgas and yellow jack trees were dense with bright new leaves and tipped with warm colour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1753n.²1832n.³1851n.⁴1884
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