- riolanus. Indeed the first has entirely
jockeyed the last off the stage for this season.
1833. Neal, Down Easters, vi. p. 84. Fair traders terrible scase—most every body jockies for themselves now.
1839. Lever, Harry Loweguer, II. He seemed to think that probably he . . . might be merely jockeyed by some bold-faced poacher.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sketch Book, p. 173. Have we penniless directors issuing El Dorado prospectuses, and jockeying their shares through the market?
1865. Dunbar, Social Life in Former Days. They did not see it necessary to be jockeying one another.
1890. W. C. Russell, Ocean Tragedy, p. 3. To suffer your passion to jockey your reason.
2. (Winchester College).—(i) to supplant; (ii) to appropriate; (iii) to engage: e.g. 'He jockeyed me up to books'; 'Who has jockeyed my baker'; 'This court is jockeyed'. Probably an extended use of the word borrowed from turf slang. Jockey not = the Commoner cry claiming exemption, answering to 'feign' at other schools: of which the college 'finge' seems a translation. The opposite of jockey up = to lose down.—Notions.
TO JOCKEY (or BAG) THE OVER, verb. phr. (cricketter's).—To manage the running in such a manner as to get all the bowling to oneself.
JOCK BLUNT. To look like Jock
Blunt, verb. phr. (old).—See
quot.
1723. Ramsay, 'Epistle to Lord Ramsay', in Wks, ii. 325. Footnote. Said of a person who is out of countenance at a disappointment.
JOCK-TE-LEEAR, Subs. (Scots').—A
small almanack, i.e. Jock (or John)
the liar [From its loose weather
forecasts].
JOCTELEG (or Jackyleg), subs.
(Scots').—A large pocket-knife.
[From Jacques de Liège, a famous
cutler]. For synonyms see Chive.
1730. Ramsay, Fables and Tales, in Wks. (1849), iii. 172. And lay out ony ora-bodles On sma' gimcracks that pleased their noddles, Sic as a jocteleg, or sheers.
1787. Grose, Provincial Glossary, s.v. Jocteleg, Liege formerly supplied Scotland with cutlery.
1791. Burns, 'To Captain Grose'. The knife that nicket Abel's craig He'll prove ye fully, It was a faulding jocteleg Or lang-kail gully.
1874. E.L. Linton, Patricia Kemball, xxv. A huge buckhorn-handled knife of the kind called in the north JACKYLEGS, Or JOCTELEGS.
JOCKUM (or Jockam), subs. (Old
Cant).—The penis. For synonyms
see Creamstick and Prick.
Hence jockum-cloy = copulation,
and JOCKUM-GAGE = (literally)
MEMBER-MUG (q.V.).
1567. Harman, Caveat, 87. He took his iockam in his famble.
1690. B.E., Dict. Cant. Crew. s.v. Jockum-gage. Rum Jockum-gage, a silver chamberpot.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
JOCKUM-GAGGER, subs. (old).—See
Jack-gagger.—Potter (1790);
Mod. Flash Dict. (1825).
JOE (or joey), subs, (common).—1.
A fourpenny piece [For derivation
see quot. 1841 and cf. Bob].
1841. Hawkins, Hist. Silver Coinage of England. These pieces are said to have owed their existence to the pressing instance of Mr. Hume, from whence they, for some time, bore the nickname of Joeys.
