Joyful. To be addicted to the 'O be joyful', verb. phr. (common).—See quot.
1865. London Jour, 8 April. Like a great many other clever fellows, he was too much addicted to the 'O be joyful!' In fact he had done so much at the business, that a red nose, somewhat swollen, was the consequence.
Juba, subs. (American).—A negro.
See Snowball.
Jubilee, subs. (Winchester College).—A
pleasant time: e.g. The town
was all in a JUBILEE of feasts—Dryden.
1772. G. A. Stevens, Songs Comic and Satyrical, p. 192. Day by day, and night by night, Joyful jubilees we keep.
Judas, subs. (colloquial).—1. A traitor.
Judas-colored = red. [From
the tradition that Judas had
red hair].
c.1384. Wyclif, Of Prelates, (in F. D. Mathew's, Unprinted Wks. of W. ch. v.) And thus the lord or the lady hireth costly a fals JUDAS to his confessour.
1597-8. Munday, Downfall of Robert etc. [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), viii. 131]. Warman himself, That creeping Judas, joy'd, and told it me.
1599. Jonson, Ev. Man out of his Humour, iv. 1. Fal. Now, out upon thee, Judas! canst thou not be content to backbite thy friend, but thou must betray him.
1600. Shakspeare, As You Like It, iii. 4. Ros. His very hair is of the dissembling colour. Cel. Something browner than Judas's.
1604. Decker, Honest Wh. Pt. 11, in Wks. (1873), ii. 116. Thou villaine, curb thy tongue, thou art a Judas, to sell thy master's name to slander thus.
1673. Dryden, Amboyna, [in Wks. i. 561 (1701)]. I do not like his oath, there's treachery in that judas-colour'd beard.
1860. Thackeray, Four Georges (George I). We think within ourselves, O you unfathomable schemer! O you warrior invincible! O you beautiful smiling Judas! What master would you not kiss or betray?
2. See Judas-hole.
Judas-hole, subs. (common).—A
spy-hole in a door (see quot. 1893);
also Judas.
1856. C. Reade, Never too Late etc. [Century]. He knew the world as he had seen it through JUDAS-HOLES, chiefly in its foulness and impurity.
1883. Century, xxvii. 75. A JUDAS is a square iron lattice . . . all have an iron flap inside to keep inquisitive eyes from prying into the house and yard.—Ibid. xxxv. 522. This contrivance which is known to the political prisoners as the JUDAS enables the guard to look into the cell at any time without attracting the attention of the occupant.
Jude, subs. Common.—(A harlot).
1886. W. E. Henley, Villon's Good-*Night. You JUDES that clobber for the stramm.
Judische (or Jew's) compliment,
subs. (venery).—Lots of PRICK
(q.v.) but no money: c.f. Yorkshire
compliment.
Judge, subs. (American cadets').—The
most popular with his
fellows.
Judge and Jury, subs. phr. (tailors').—A
mock trial, the fines
being paid in beer.
Judy (or Jude), subs. (common).—1.
A girl: a woman, especially one
of loose morals: also, a sweetheart.
In Anglo-Chinese circles a native
courtezan.
1886. Daily News, 26 July, p. 6, col. 1. One man saying 'Them ere Romans was them coves as goes about with a horgan an' a JUDY' (girl).
1888. Runciman, The Chequers, p. 80. I done the best as I knew for you, and there ain't a bloke around as has a JUDY.
