1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1836. M. Scott, Cruise of the Midge [ed. 18.] p. 295. Before you could say Jack Robinson, the pursuer's starboard leg was whipped out of Jack Lennox's clutches.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends [ed. 1842] p. 256. I have not a doubt, I shall rout every tout, Ere you'll whisper Jack Robinson.
1846. Punch, xi. 9. Here it was he married my mother whose name was Robinson, whose ancestor was the famous Jack Robinson of whom is still retained a popular proverb relating to rapidity of expression.
Jackrum, subs. (old).—A marriage
license.—Modern Flash Dict.
(1825).
Jack-Sauce, subs. (old).—An impudent
fellow; a sauce-box (q.v.).
1571. Edwards, Damon and Pitheas (Dodsley, O. Pl., i. 271). Heere is a gay world! boyes now set old men to scoole: I sayd wel inough; what, jack-sawce, think'st cham a fool?
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce's Super. in Wks. (grosart) ii. 328. A jack-sauce, or vnmannerly puppy.
1597-8. Haughton, A Woman will have her Will [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), x. 537]. Well, Jack-sauce, The rogue is waking yet to spoil your sport.
1599. Shakespeare, Henry V, iv. 7. If he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as arrant a villain, and a jack sauce, as ever . . . trod upon God's ground and his earth, in my conscience la.
1602. Cooke, How a Man may Choose a Good Wife etc. [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ix. 78]. Why, you Jack-sauce! You cuckold! you what-not!
1612. Field, Woman is a Weather-*cock, ii. 1. What say ye, Jack Sauce.
1620. Hall, Honour of the Maried Clergie, ii § 12. Every jack-sauce of Rome shall thus odiously dare to controll and disgrace it.
1633. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iii. 1. Dame 7. Come up, jack sauce.
1638. Randolph, Muses' Looking Glass, iv. 4. Such a jack-sauce.
1659. Massinger, City Madam, iv. 2. Do you so, jack sauce! I'll keep them further off.
1702. Vanbrugh, False Friend, iii. 2. Why how now, jack-sauce? why how now, Presumption?
1719. Durfey, Pills &c. v. 287. A sword and buckler good and strong, To give Jack-sauce a rap.
Jack's Delight, subs. phr. (common).—A
sea-port strumpet. For
synonyms see Barrack-hack and
Tart.
Jack-Shay, subs. (Australian).—A
tin quart used for boiling tea, and
contrived to hold a tin pint.
1881. Grant, Bush Life [quoted in Slang, Jargon & Cant.]. Hobbles and jack-shays hang from the Saddle-*dees.
Jack-Sprat, subs. (old).—An under-*sized
man or boy.—Grose (1785).
1570. Wit and Science [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 39]. But what, no force, ye are but Jack Sprat to me.
Jack-Straw, subs. (old).—. 1. A
nobody; and (2) a dwarf. For
synonyms see Hop-o'-my-thumb.
1596. Nashe, Have With You etc. in Works [Grosart] iii. 158. These worthless whippets and Iacke-Strawes.
1629. Flyting of Polwarth and Montgomerie (Edin. Montgomerie's Poems, 1885-6, i. 64]. Iacstro, be better anes ingined.
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i. 2. You are a saucy Jack-straw to question me.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew. s.v.
1725. New. Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Jack Straw's castle, subs. phr. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms see Monosyllable.
