Jack-Nasty, subs. (common).—A sneak; a sloven: cf. Jack-nasty-face.
1856. Hughes, Tom Brown's School-Days, I. iii. Tom and his younger brothers, as they grew up, went on playing with the village boys, without the idea of equality or inequality (except in wrestling, running, and climbing) ever entering their heads, as it doesn't till it's put there by jack nastys or fine ladies' maids.
Jack-nasty-face, subs. (old).—1.
A sailor; specifically a cook.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1884. G. A. Sala, in Ill. Lond. News. April 12, p. 339, col. 3. I should be glad to learn . . . why the cook's mate is called 'Jack-nasty-face.'
2. (common).—A filthy or unpleasant-looking person: cf. Jack-nasty.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf., s.v. Jack-nasty-face—a dirty fellow.
Jack-pudding, subs. (old).—A
serving merry-andrew; a low-class
buffoon. Fr. jean-pottage
(= jack-soup); Germ. Hans-wurst
(= jack-sausage); Dutch, pickel-herringe;
It. macaroni. Hence
jack-puddinghood (Walpole)
= buffoonery.
1650-51. Milton, Defence of People of England, i. The extempore rhymes of some antic jack-pudding may deserve printing better.
1653. Aston Cockaine. 'On Mr. Richard Brome's Playes.' Our theatres of lower note in those More happy daies Shall scorn the rustic prose Of a jack-pudding.
1664. Etherege, Comical Revenge, iii. 4, in Wks (1704), 35. He was jack-pudding to a Mountebank, and turned off for want of wit.
1670. J. Eachard, Contempt of the Clergy, in Arber's Garner, vii, p. 265. Those usually that have been Rope Dancers in the Schools, oft times prove jack-puddings in the Pulpit.
1672. W. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i. 2. He is a mere buffoon, a Jack-pudding.
1691-2. Gentlemen's Journal, Jan., p. 35. All its inhabitants are jack-puddings born.
1757. Foote, The Author [1782], 46. A Jack-pudding! that takes fillips on the nose for sixpence a piece.
1772. G. A. Stevens, Songs Comic and Satyrical, p. 50. So Jack-puddings joke, with distorted grimace, Benetting their gudgeons, the croud.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1795. R. Cumberland, The Jew, iv. 2. Sheva. You are a saucy knave to make a joke of your master. Do you think I will keep a jack-pudding in my house like you, to listen at my keyhole and betray my conversation.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1825. Scott, St. Ronan's Well, iii. The jack-pudding to the company, whose business it was to crack the best joke, and sing the best song, he could.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. of England, vi. Booth had bitterly complained to the Commons that the dearest of his constituents were entrusted to a drunken jack-pudding.
1881. Besant & Rice. Chap. of Fleet, pt. 1. They were again jocund, light-hearted, the oracle of the tavern, the jester and jack pudding of the Feast.
Jack Randall, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A
candle. [The name of a
famous pugilist].
Jack Robinson, subs. (venery).—The
penis. For synonyms see
Creamstick and Prick.
Before one can say 'Jack Robinson', phr. (common).—Instantly; in the shortest possible time; in two-two's (q.v.).
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. 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.
