1850. F. E. Smedley, Frank Fairlegh, liv. 'Well, of all the vile puns I ever heard, that, which I believe to be an old joe miller, is the worst.'
1859. Times, 'Rev. of Ramsay's Reminiscences', 25 Oct. There is more 'wit', more mere word-flashing in one page of our familiar joe, than in the whole of Dean Ramsay's book.
1883. Notes and Queries, 6 S. viii. 489. All classes are given to such repetitions, and the only differences are that every set has its own peculiar style or class of joe millers and old tales.
1885. Punch, August 1, p. 54. What? A weir yonder? Oh! I'm a-weir of it. There! Better old joe millers than old saws.
1890. Speaker, 22 Feb., p. 211, col. 2. We must not spoil any of Mr. Montagu Williams's endless laughable stories, though here and there one looks very like an old joe with a new face.
Joe Savage, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A
cabbage.
Joey, subs. (American thieves').—1.
A hypocrite.—Matsell (1859).
2. (common).—See Joe, subs. sense 1.
3. (Australian).—See quot. 1887.
1865. H. Kingsley, Hillyars and Burtons, lvii. He had met a grey doe kangaroo with her little ones. . . . Then the little one, the joey, had opened its mother's pouch and got in.
1887. Australian Colloquialisms in All the Year Round, 30 July, p. 67. Joey is a familiar name for anything young or small, and is applied indifferently to a puppy, or a kitten, or a child, while a wood-and-water-joey is a hanger about hotels, and a doer of odd jobs.
4. (nautical).—A marine.
5. (theatrical).—A clown. [From Joey Grimaldi].
Intj. (Australian).—See quot. Also Jo!
1867. The Victorian Song-book, 'Where's your License,' p. 6. Diggers ain't often caught on the hop, The little word Joe! which all of you know, Is a signal the traps are quite near.
Jog, verb. (old venery).—To copulate.
For synonyms see Greens
and Ride.
1608. R. Middleton, Epigrams, p. 18. Glabreus of late lay with a common whore, But now he swears he'll jogge with her no more.
1736. The Cupid, 20. He shou'll ken I'se nae afraid When he gangs to bed me, A' night long I'se ne'er complain, Tho' he jog'd me sprightly.
Jogger, verb. (theatrical).—To play
and sing; to perform.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, v. I could vardy that when I heard them joggering.
Joggering Omey, subs. phr. (theatrical).—A
musician. [It. giocar
= to play + uomo = a man].
Jog-trot (or Job-trot), subs. (old:
now recognised).—A slow trot:
hence a dull round; an unvarying
and uninteresting method. As
adj. monotonous; easy-going.
Hence, adv. jog-trotty.
1709. M. Bruce, Sermon, p. 15. You that keeps only your old job-troot, and does not mend your pace, you will not wone at soul confirmation. There is a whine old job-troot ministers among us, a whine old job-troot professors: they have their own pace, and faster they will not go.
1756. The World, No. 193. They contented themselves indeed with going on a jog-trot in the common road of application and patience.
1766. Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, xx. All honest jog-trot men, who go on smoothly and dully.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Jogg-trot.
1852. Dickens, Bleak House, xvii, p. 142. 'It's rather jog-trotty and humdrum. But it'll do as well as anything else!'
1872. M. E. Braddon, Dead Sea Fruit, i. There is a jog-trot prosperity in the place, a comfortable air, which is soothing to the world-worn spirit.
