2. (common).—A simpleton; a fool: to make a judy of one-*self = to play the fool; to act the giddy goat (q.v.) or saucy kipper (q.v.).
1824. Atlantic Magazine, i, 346. Not are ye laughin' at, ye judies.
1854. Punch, i, p. 208, col. 2. Making a judy of herself.
b.1877. Boston Chronotype, (quoted by Bartlett). It is thought that a set of men never did make greater judies of themselves.
Juff, subs. (old).—1. The cheek;
2. The posteriors.
Jug, subs. (old).—1. A prison: also
more frequently stone-jug (q.v.).
For synonyms see Cage. Fr. la
boite aux cailloux; Sp. tristura.
[Skeat: Fr. joug = a yoke. The
Eng. jug, a cant term for a prison
(also called jocosely a stone-jug)
is the same word].
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, iii. v. And thus was I bowled out at last And into the jug for a lag was cast.
1835. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, p. 157. That's better than the stone-jug anyhow; the mill's a deal better than the Sessions.
1837. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xlii. He shall be kept in the stone-jug, Charlie, like a gentleman.
1839. Thackeray, Catherine, i. We intend to take a few more pages from the Old Bailey Calendar to bless the public with one more draught from the stone jug.
1842. Punch, ii, 188. 'Cut like bricks, and bilk the jug,' he cried in one of those speeches which bother the French authors so much when they try to translate our works.
1852. Judson, Mysteries of New-York, x. 'What is that place?' 'It's the jug sir,' responded Frank—'the Tombs, I meant, sir.'
1867. Punch, xxxii, 49. This stone jug at which flats dare to rail.
1870. All the Year Round, 5 Mar. 'Bygone Cant'. In a box of the stone-jug I was born, aye, And by a tightened jugular I shall die.
1871. Chambers' Journal, 9 Dec. p. 771. They are no worse than the swells in the City who rob right and left, and never get in the jug for it.
1884. R. E. Francillon, Ropes of Sand, xxi. I've not been under a roof but the jug's since somewhere in old Horneds's time.
1888. Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, xxii. It was no use sending it to you, old man, while you was in the jug.
1889. Modern Society, 16 Feb., p. 305. I got three months in the jug for fortune-telling.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 58. As for O'Brien and his britches, I'd keep all sech jossers in jug.
1895. C. Whibley, in New Review, May, p. 570. For thirty years his squat, stout figure was amiably familiar to all such as enjoyed the Liberties of the jug.
2. (American thieves').—A bank: A BROKEN JUGGED ONE = a note from a broken bank. Hence, also, Jug-breaking = burglary at a bank.
1862. Cornhill Mag., vi. 648. It's all in single pennifs on the England jug.
3. (old).—A mistress. Hence (as in quot. 1632) a term of endearment.
1569. T. Preston, Cambyses. Dost thou think I am a sixpenny jug?
b.1600. Grim the Collier [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), viii. 409]. The collier chooseth well; . . . Jug shall be his. [Aside]. But hear'st thou, Grim, I have that in my head, To plot that how thou shall the maiden wed.
1632. W. Rowley, Woman Never Vext, i. 1. Bring him away, Jug.
1707. Centlivre, Platonic Lady. Haste ye! don't you marry that ill tempered JUG.
4. (old).—A term of contempt applied indifferently to both the sexes: see juggins.
