jungle fever
Attraction of a person of non-African descent towards people of West, Central, East or Southern African descent.
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jungle juice
An improvised mix of liquor, often with fruit juices, usually served for group consumption.
jungle rot
tropical ulcer
Junior Cert
Clipped compound of Junior Certificate.
junjo
Something with a bad odor.
junk
Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
junk gun
Synonym of Saturday-night special.
junk in the trunk
Corpulence of the buttocks.
junk sick
Experiencing the nausea sometimes suffered by the user of a narcotic the following day, or after the effects of the drug begin to wear off, often with flulike symptoms.
junk sickness
Nausea or other flulike symptoms experienced by the user of a narcotic the following day or after the effects begin to subside.
junkballing
That relies heavily on junkballs.
junker
Synonym of junkie (“drug addict”).
junkhead
A junkie, drug addict.
junkie
A narcotics addict, especially a heroin user.
junkyism
Addiction, like that of a junkie.
junt
Thing, item.
jury
The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails.
jury-rig
To rig a jury; to engage in jury tampering, to improperly influence jurors, or the selection of jurors, such that they deliver a certain verdict.
jus
Abbreviation of just.
jussa
Pronunciation spelling of just a
just
Expressing dismay or discontent.
justice delayed is justice denied
If a wrong is not redressed within a reasonable time, it is as though the wrong were not redressed at all.
justice is blind
Justice is to be meted out impartially, without regard to the identity of the individual being tried.
jut out
To protrude; to extend outwards into space; to stick out.
juve
A child actor.
juwaub
A formal refusal.
jux
To rob or mug (someone).
j z tr
Texting abbreviation of "gì vậy trời" — "what on earth?!", an exclamation of disbelief.
j-slur
A job.
J. Arthur
A wank.
J. Arthur Rank
A wank.
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 all
Nothing.
Jack Amend-All
One of the nicknames given to Jack Cade (killed 1450), the leader of "Cade's Rebellion.'* He promised to remedy all abuses.
Jack and Jill
two people, typically a couple or friends
Jack and Jill
It has been suggested that the well-known nursery rhyme is a relic of a Norse myth, the two children are said to have been kidnapped by the moon while drawing water, and they are still to be seen with the bucket hanging from a pole resting on their shoulders.
Jack and the Beanstalk
A nursery tale found among all sorts of races from Icelanders to Zulus.
Jack and Victor
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
Jack boots
Cumbrous boots of thick leather worn by fishermen, cavalrymen, etc.
Jack Brag
A vulgar, pretentious braggart, ' who gets into aristocratic society, where his vulgarity stands out m strong relief. The character is in Theodore Hook's novel of the same name.
Jack Frost
The personification of frost or frosty weather.
Jack Homer
A very fanciful explana- tion of the old nursery rhyme "Little Jack
jack in
to quit or give up something
Jack in the cellar
Old slang for an unborn child: a translation of the Dutch expression for the same Hans in kelder.
jack ketch
The hangman; vide DERRICK and KETCH.
Jack Ketch
A hangman and executioner, notorious for his barbarity, who was appointed about 1663 and died in 1686.
jack nasty face
A sea term, signifying a common sailor.
Jack Nasty-Face
A sailor.
jack of all trades
A person with many skills, but not expert in any one area
Jack of all trades and master of none
Someone with many skills, but no expertise in any area
jack of all trades, master of none
Someone who has many skills but is not expert in any one area
Jack of both sides
One who tries to favour two antagonistic parties, either from fear or for profit.
Jack of cards
The knave or servant of the king and queen of the same suit. Jack o* the bowl. The brownie or house spirit of Switzerland; so called from the custom of placing for him every night on the roof of the cowhouse a bowl of fresh sweet cream. The contents are sure to disappear before morning.
Jack of Dover
Some unidentified eatable mentioned by Chaucer in the Cook's Prologue. "Our host," addressing the cook, says: — Now telle on, Roger, loke that it be good; For many a pastee hastow laten blood, And many a Jakke of Dover hastow sold That hath been twyes hoot and twyes cold. Professor Skeat says that this is "probably a pie that had been cooked more than once"; another suggestion is that it means some sea- fish (cp.
Jack of Newbury
John Winchcombe alias Smallwood (d. 1520), a wealthy clothier in the reign of Henry VIII. He was the hero of many chap-books, and is said to have kept 100 looms in his own house at Newbury, while legend relates that he equipped at his own expense 100 to 200 of his men to aid the king against the Scots in Flodden Field.
Jack out of office
One no longer in office; one dismissed from his employment. I am left out; for me nothing remains, But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office.