1851-61. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lond. Poor, iii, 360. He didn't take the corners or the crossings careful enough for a regular jarvey.
1882. Serj. Ballantine, Experiences, ch. ii, p. 19 (6th ed.). The driver [of a hackney-coach] was called a jarvey, a compliment paid to the class in consequence of one of them named Jarvis having been hanged.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 16 Dec. The assembled Londoners placed more faith in the real four-wheeler, the grey horse, and the loquacious jarvey.
2. (old).—A hackney coach.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, 11. 4. A rattler . . . is a rumbler, otherwise a jarvey . . . better known perhaps by the name of a hack.
1835. T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, iii. 1. I stepped into the litter, . . . at the bottom of the jarvy.
1838. Glascock, Land Sharks & Sea Gulls, i, 203. And now . . . was Waddy seen to enter a jarvey, and to drive from the Temple Court.
1865. G. F. Berkeley, My Life, i. 275. Dan McKinnon slipped through the windows of the first, and so on out of the others till the whole string of jarvies were bumping in procession to the destination, having no one in them.
Jasey (or Jazey), subs. (old).—1.
A worsted wig. Cove with
a jazey = judge.
1789. Parker, Life's Painter; 172. Wig, jasey.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, 'Jerry Jarvis's Wig'. With an infrenzied grasp he tore the jasey from his head. Ibid. 'The Coronation'. All jools from his jasey to his di'mond boots.
1841. Punch, i. 208. If you only see his big cock'd hat, Stuck up on the top of his jazy.
1842. Lever, Jack Hinton, iii. The head would have been bald but for a scanty wig, technically called a jasy, which shrunk by time, merely occupied the apex of the scalp.
1869. Thackeray, Lyra Hibernica, 'Molony's Lament.' When spring with its buds and its dasies, Comes out in her beauty and bloom, Them tu'll never think of new jasies.
1895. Sporting Times, No. 1653, p. 9. There is nothing to he ashamed of in wearing a jasey.
2. (American thieves').—A man with an enormous quantity of hair upon his head and face.—Matsell (1859).
Jasker, subs. (American thieves').
A seal.—Matsell (1859). Cf.
Jark.
Jason's Fleece, subs. phr. (Old
Cant.).—A citizen cheated of his
gold.—B. E. (1690); Grose
(1785).
Jaum, verb. (thieves').—To discover.
1821. Haggart, Life, 57. McBean . . . jaum'd a scout on the chimney-*piece.
Jaw, subs. (vulgar).—Abuse; chatter;
impudence; any sort of talk. Hold
(or stow) your jaw = hold your
tongue. All jaw, like a sheep's
head = nothing but talk.
English synonyms. Chin-music; gab (or gob); lingo; lip lobs; patter; snaffle.
French synonyms. Le debérage (popular); une coup de gaffe (general); la jactance (thieves'); la jappe (popular); le jaspin (thieves').
Italian synonyms. Canzonamento; contrapunto (= counterpoint).
Spanish synonyms. Champarrado; chapurrado; dichido.
1748. Smollett, Roderick Random, iii. 'None of your jaw, you swab' . . . replied my uncle.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, xxxii. Desiring him to do his duty without farther jaw.
