job
"a JOB lot," otherwise called a "sporting lot," any miscellaneous goods purchased at a cheap rate, or to be sold a bargain. Frequently used to conceal the fact of their being stolen, or otherwise dishonestly obtained.
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job's comfort
Reproof instead of consolation.
job's comforter
A boil.
job's dock
He is laid up in Job's dock; i.e. in a salivation. The apartments for the foul or venereal patients in St. Bartholomew's hospital, are called Job's ward.
job's pound
Bridewell; prison. poorer than Job. equipment. Joe Miner- See MILLER.
jobation
A chiding, a reprimand, a trial of the hearer’s patience.
jobbery
The arrangement of jobs, or unfair business proceedings.
job’s turkey
"as poor as JOB’S TURKEY," as thin and as badly fed as that ill-conditioned and imaginary bird.
jock
A common man.
jocks
Male briefs.
jockum gage
A chamber-pot, jordan, looking-glass, or member-mug. CANT.
jocteleg
A shut-up knife. Corruption of Jacques de Liège, a famous cutler.
joe
A too marvellous tale, a lie, or a stale joke. Abbreviated from JOE MILLER. The full name is occasionally used, as in the phrase "I don’t see the JOE MILLER of it," i.e., I don’t perceive the wit you intend, or I don’t see the fun of doing it,—whatever may have been the request.
Joe Average
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Joe Blake
A snake.
Joe Citizen
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
joe job
A prank or harassment where someone's email or phone is used to send spam or offensive messages
Joe Public
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Joe Random
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
joey
A fourpenny piece. The term is derived (like BOBBY from Sir Robert Peel) from Joseph Hume. The explanation is thus given in Hawkins’s History of the Silver Coinage of England:—
jog on
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
jog someone's memory
Help someone remember something forgotten
jog-trot
A slow but regular trot, or pace.
jogg-trot
To keep on a jogg-trot; to get on with a slow but regular pace.
jogul
To play up, at cards or other game. Spanish, JUGAR.
John Barleycorn
A personifica- tion of malt liquor. The term was made popular by Burns.
John Brown
An American abolitionist who led a body of men to free Negro slaves at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, October 16th, 1859. The famous Union song of the Civil War, "John Brown's Body,*' made him a legend.
John Bull
The national nickname for an Englishman, represented as a bluff, kind- hearted, bull-headed farmer. The character is from Dr. John Arbuthnof s satire The History of John Bull, which was originally published in 1712 as Law in a Bottomless Pit. "John Bull" is the Englishman, the Frenchman is termed Lewis Baboon, the Dutchman Nicholas Frog, etc.
John Citizen
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
John dory
A golden yellow fish, the Zeus faber, common in the Mediterranean and round the south-western coasts of England. Its name was dory (Fr. doree, golden) long before the John was added; this was probably a humorous amplification — from the name of some real or imaginary person — with, perhaps, a side allusion to Fr., jaune, yellow.
John Hancock
a large, flashy signature
John Henry
A person who insists on doing something manually
John in the Wad
Another name for the will-o'-the-wisp. See IGNIS FATUUS. To wait for John Long, the carrier. To wait a long time; to wait for John, who keeps us a long tune.
John of Jerusalem
Some time after the first crusade (1042), some Neapolitan merchants built at Jerusalem a hospital for sick pilgrims and a church which they dedicated to St. John; these they committed to the charge of certain knights, called Hospitallers of St. John.
John of Sudbury
The library and chapel were damaged in an air-raid in 1941. Lambeth Conferences of Church of England bishops from all over the world have been held at intervals since 1867.
John Q. Public
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
John Robert Gregg
Gregg's shorthand is in general use in U.S.A. whereas Pitman's is the more popular in Great Britain.
John Roberts
Obsolete slang for a very large tankard, supposed to hold enough drink for any ordinary drinker to last through
John Selden
The ten chroniclers are Simeon of Durham, John of Hexham, Richard of Hexham, Ailred of Rieval, Ralph de Diceto (Archdeacon of London), John Brompton of Jorval, Geryase of Canterbury, Thomas Stubbs, William Thorn of Canterbury, and Henry Knighton of Leicester.
John Tamson's man
A henpecked husband; one ordered here, there, and everywhere. Tamson — Le. spiritless, a Tame-son.
John Thomas
The penis.
John's College at Cambridge
These lectures are given for the "voluntary theological examination," and treat upon the Fathers, the Liturgy, and fas priestly duties, Cp. NORRISIAN.
johnny
Half-a-glass of whisky.—Irish.
Johnny Appleseed
Someone who spreads something, like ideas, generously and widely
johnny bag
A condom.
johnny bum
A he or jack ass: so called by a lady that affected to be extremely polite and modest, who would not say Jack because it was vulgar, nor ass because it was indecent.
johnny darbies
A nickname for policemen, an evident corruption of the French GENSDARMES. Also, a term applied to handcuffs.—See DARBIES.
Johnny Raw
A nervous novice, a newly enlisted soldier; an adult apprentice in the ship trade.
Johnny Reb
In the American Civil War a Federal name for a Confederate soldier — from the Northern point of view, a rebel. Joint, in U.S.A. slang originally meant a sordid place where illicit spirits could be bought and arunk, opium smoked, etc.
johnson
Penis.
Johnson wrote to Mrs
Thrale "How did you light on your specifick for the tooth-ach?
johnson’s
(Dr. Samuel) Dictionary (the earlier editions). V. D.
join forces
To combine resources or efforts to achieve a common goal
join hands
to cooperate or work together
join issue
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
join the club
to share a common experience or problem
joined at the hip
extremely close or inseparable
joint
To hit a joint in carving, the operator must think of a cuckold. To put one's nose out of joint; to rival one in the favour of a patron or mistress.
jol
A party.
jolly
A Royal Marine.—See HORSE MARINE.