1876. J. Grant, One of the Six Hundred, xv. Where, doubtless, she and her family would be on a Sunday, in their luxuriously-cushioned pew, attended by a tall jeames in plush, carrying a great Bible, a nosegay, and gold headed cane.
1891. Licensed Victuallers' Mirror, 30 Jan., p. 6, col. 3. The Jeameses and Allplushes who frequent that part of the town.
1892. Tit Bits, 19 Mar, p. 421, col. 1. Mutton-chop whiskers . . . are now little seen, save on the physiognomy of jeames Yellowplush.
2. (obsolete).—The Morning Post newspaper.
Jeff, subs. (circus).—A rope.
1854. Dickens, Hard Times, vi. Tight-jeff or Slack-jeff, it don't much signify; it's only tight-rope and slack-rope.
Verb. (American printers').—To gamble with 'quads', as with dice.
1888. American Humorist. He never set any type except in the rush of the last day, and then he would smouch all the poetry, and leave the rest to jeff for the solid takes.
Jeffy, subs. (American thieves').—Lightning.—Matsell
(1859).
In a jeffey. See Jiffey.
Jegger.—See Jigger.
Jehu, subs. (common).—A coachman;
a driver. [From 2 Kings
ix, 20].
1660. J. Crouch, Return of Chas. II, p. 9. Now the restored Rump, jehu-like, drives on.
1681. Dryden, The Medal, 119. But this new jehu spurs the hot mouthed horse.
1694. Congreve, Double Dealer, iii. 10. Our jehu was a hackny coachman, when my Lord took him.
1759. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 5, p. 388 (Globe ed.). Our figure now began to expostulate: he assured the coachman, that though his baggage seemed so bulky, it was perfectly light. . . . But Jehu was inflexible.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Jehu.
1841. Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Reformation [quoted in Century]. A pious man . . . may call a keen foxhunter a Nimrod . . . and Cowper's friend, Newton, would speak of a neighbour who was given to driving as jehu.
1846-8. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, vii. The worthy Baronet whom he drove to the city did not give him one single penny more than his fare. It was in vain that jehu appealed and stormed.
1855. Lady Holland, Sidney Smith, vi. She soon . . . raised my wages, and considered me an excellent jehu.
1860. Punch, iii. 177. The jehus who drive.
1889. Daily Telegraph, 5 Jan. For some time past the jehus of Paris have betrayed a lamentable ignorance of metropolitan topography.
Jelly, subs. (common).—1. A buxom,
good-looking girl: also all
jelly. Cf. Scots jelly, = excellent
or worthy.—'A jelly
man well worthy of a crown'.—Shirrefs,
Poems, (1790) p. 33.
d.1758. Ramsay, To Lieutenant Hamilton, in Wks., iii. 47. A jelly sum to carry on A fishery's designed.
2. (venery).—The seminal fluid. For synonyms see Cream.
1622. Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, iii. 1. Give her cold jelly To take up her belly, And once a day swinge her again.
d.1631. Donne, Progress of the Soul, st. xxiii. A female fish's sandy roe With the male's jelly newly leaven'd was.
Jelly-bag, subs. (venery).—1. The
scrotum. For synonyms see purse.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms see Monosyllable,
