Jack whore
A female prostitute with a large build or masculine characteristics.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
Jemmy Ducks
A man employed on a ship to look after the poultry.
Jerry Lynch
A pickled pig's head.
Jerry Sneak
A henpecked husband.
Jew bail
Synonym of straw bail.
John Blunt
A straightforward, honest, outspoken man.
Johnny Raw
A beginner or newcomer; an inexperienced person.
jabber
To talk thick and fast, as great praters usually do, to chatter like a magpye; also to speak a foreign language. He jabbered to me in his damned outlandish parlez vous, but I could not understand him; he chattered to me in French, or some other foreign language, but I could not understand him.
jabber
To talk, or chatter. A cant word in Swift’s time. Probably from GIBBER.
jack
A farthing, a small bowl serving as the mark for bowlers. An instrument for pulling off boots.
jack
The knave of trumps, at the game of all-fours.
jack adams
A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell.
jack ketch
The hangman; vide DERRICK and KETCH.
jack nasty face
A sea term, signifying a common sailor.
Jack Nasty-Face
A sailor.
jack pudding
The merry andrew, zany, or jester to a mountebank.
jack randall
(a noted pugilist), a candle.
jack robinson
Before one could say Jack Robinson; a saying to express a very short time, originating from a very volatile gentleman of that appellation, who would call on his neighbours, and be gone before his name could be announced.
jack sprat
A dwarf, or diminutive fellow.
jack-at-a-pinch
One whose assistance is only sought on an emergency. Jack-in-the-water, an attendant at the watermen’s stairs on the river and sea-port towns, who does not mind wetting his feet for a customer’s convenience, in consideration of a douceur.
jack-in-the-box
A small but powerful kind of screw, used by burglars to break open safes.
jackanapes
An ape; a pert, ugly, little fellow.
jacked
Spavined. A jacked horse.
jacked-up
Ruined, done for. To JACK-UP is to leave off doing anything suddenly. See CHUCK-UP.
jacket
The skin of a potato which has not been pared before cooking. In Ireland potatoes are generally served "with their JACKETS on."
jacketing
A thrashing. Similar term to leathering, cowhiding, &c.
jackey
Gin. Seven Dials originally. Nearly general now.
jacks
AND HALF-JACKS, card counters, resembling in size and appearance sovereigns and half-sovereigns, for which they are occasionally passed to simple persons. In large gambling establishments the "heaps of gold" are frequently composed of JACKS. JACKS are not, as they are sometimes supposed to be, counterfeit coins; they are simply little medals, and so "magsmen" and "street muggers" carry them with less concern than they would feel were their pockets loaded with spurious money.
jacob
A soft fellow. A fool.
jacob
A ladder. Grose says, from Jacob’s dream.—Old Cant.
jacobites
Sham or collar shirts. Also partizans for the Stuart family: from the name of the abdicated king, i.e. James or Jacobus. It is said by the whigs, that God changed Jacob's name to Israel, lest the descendants of that patriarch should be called Jacobites.
jacob’s ladder
A longitudinal flaw in the leg of a ballet-girl’s tights.
jade
A term of reproach to women.
jagger
A gentleman. German, JAGER, a sportsman.
jague
A ditch: perhaps from jakes.
jail-bird
A prisoner, one who has been in jail.
jakes
A house of office, a cacatorium.
james
A sovereign, or twenty shillings. From JACOBUS, the James II. guinea.
janizaries
The mob, sometimes so called; also bailiffs, their setters, and followers.
jannock
Sociable, fair dealing.—Norfolk. Generally now JONNICK, which see.
japan
To ordain. Having evident reference to the black clothes which follow ordination.—University.
japanned
Ordained. To be japanned; to enter into holy orders, to become a clergyman, to put on the black cloth: from the colour of the japan ware, which is black.
jark
A "safe-conduct" pass.—Oxford. Old cant for a seal.
jarkmen
Those, who fabricate counterfeit passes, licences, and certificates for beggars.
jarvey
The driver of a hackney-coach; "JARVEY’S upper Benjamin," a coachman’s overcoat, with many capes. An ingenious etymology has been found for JARVEY, thus:—JARVEY, vernacular for Geoffrey, which was often written Geo. (gee-ho), hence JARVEY. This is open to considerable objection, as George is shortened in similar manner to that shown above. Still it is worthy of record, independently of its ingenuity, being as exact as many accepted derivations.
jason's fleece
A citizen cheated of his gold.
jaw
Speech, discourse. Give us none of your jaw; let us have none of your discourse. A jaw-me-dead; a talkative fellow. Jaw work; a cry used in fairs by the sellers of nuts.
jaw
Speech, or talk; "hold your JAW," don’t speak any more; "what are you JAWING about?" i.e., what are you making a noise about?
jaw-breaker
A hard or excessively long word. Also, in pugilistic sense, a hard blow on the side of the face.
jaw-twister
A hard or many-syllabled word. Elaboration of preceding.
jazey
A wig. A corruption of JERSEY, the name for flax prepared in a peculiar manner, of which common wigs were formerly made; "the cove with the JAZEY," i.e., the judge.
jeames
(a generic for "flunkeys"), the Morning Post newspaper—the organ of Belgravia and the "Haristocracy."
jeffy
It will be done in a jeffy; it will be done in a short space of time, in an instant.
jehu
To drive jehu-like; to drive furiously: from a king of Israel of that name, who was a famous charioteer, and mentioned as such in the Bible.
jehu
Old slang term for a coachman, or one fond of driving.—Biblical.
jeminy o!
A vulgar expression of surprise.
jemmy
A crow. This instrument is much used by housebreakers.
jemmy
A sheep’s-head.—See SANGUINARY JAMES.
jemmy fellow
A smart spruce fellow.
jemmy-john
A jar for holding liquor; probably a corruption of demi-gallon, by means of DEMI-JOHN.