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jabberer. 20 <strong>Jack</strong>.<br />
1728. POPE, Dunciad, ii. 237.<br />
'Twas chatt'ring, grinning, mouthing,<br />
JABB'RING all.<br />
d.1745. SWIFT, [quoted by JOHNSON].<br />
We scorn, for want of talk, to JABBER<br />
Of parties.<br />
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.<br />
JABBER . . . . also to speak a foreign<br />
language ; he JABBERED to me in his<br />
damned outlandish parlez-vous.<br />
1853. THACKERAY, Barry Lyndon,<br />
vi. p. 82. A couple more of the same<br />
nation were JABBERING oaths and chattering<br />
incessantly.<br />
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, S.V.<br />
JABBER. To talk in an unknown language.<br />
1884. W. C. RUSSELL, Yack' s<br />
Courfshi xvii. We sallied forth arm<br />
in arm, he JABBERING incessantly.<br />
1888. Daily Chronicle, 19 Oct.<br />
The woman said that he was a perfect<br />
stranger to her, and . . . . JABBERED<br />
something she did not understand.<br />
JABBERER, subs. (old : now colloquial).-One<br />
who JABBERS (q.v.).<br />
1678. BUTLER, Hudibras, III, C.2.<br />
T'out-cant the Babylonian labourers, At<br />
all their dialects of JABBERERS.<br />
JABBERING, subs. (old : now col-<br />
loquial).-Nonsense; indistinct and<br />
rapid speech ; PATTER (q.v.).<br />
1690. DURFEY, Collin's Walk, C.<br />
IV, p. 183. With which, and wild<br />
Egyptian JABBERING, She got her Living<br />
without Labouring.<br />
1720. DEFOE, C4.1. Singleton, I,<br />
xi. Pray what are we the wiser for all<br />
their JABBERING?<br />
JABBERINGLY, adv. (old : now col-<br />
loquial).-Indistinctly; nonsensically.<br />
J ABBERMENT, subs. (old: now<br />
colloquial).-Nonsense ; gibberish;<br />
JABBER (q.v.).<br />
1645. MILTON, Colasferion [quoted<br />
in Enc. Did.]. At last, and in good<br />
hour, we are come to his farewel, which<br />
is to be a concluding taste of his<br />
JABBERMENT in law.<br />
JABBERNOWL. See JOBBERNOWL.<br />
J ABERS (or J ABEZ). BE (or BY)JABERS<br />
(or JABEZ), intj. (common).-An<br />
oath.<br />
1821. HAGGART, Life, 118. By<br />
JAPPERS ! we were tould he was the boy.<br />
1890. HUME NISBET, Bail 4, ,<br />
p. 265. A head wind, BE JABBERS!<br />
1892. HUME NISBET, Bush ranger's<br />
Sweetheart, p. 152. Arrah, BE JABBERS!<br />
but that's the foinest song I have<br />
listened to since I left Ould Oirland.<br />
JACK, subs. (old).- x. A farthing ;<br />
also (American thieves'), a small<br />
coin.<br />
1690. B. E., Did. Cant. Crew.<br />
S.V. JACK.<br />
1714. Memoirs of 7ohn Hall,<br />
p. 12, S.V.<br />
1725. New Cant. Did. S.V. JACK.<br />
He wou'd not tip me a JACK, Not a<br />
farthing wou'd he give me.<br />
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.<br />
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, s.v.<br />
2. (old).-The small bowl<br />
aimed at in the game of bowls.<br />
1605. SHAKSPEARE, Cymbeline,<br />
1, 2. Was there ever man had such luck !<br />
when I kissed the JACK upon on upcast<br />
to be hit away !<br />
1690. B. E., Did. Cant. Crew.<br />
S.V. JACK.<br />
1726. BUTLER, Human Learning,<br />
Pt. 2. Like bowlers strive to beat away<br />
the JACK.<br />
d.1742. BENTLEY, [quoted by JOHNSON,<br />
1755]. But if it, [a bowl] be made<br />
with a byass . . . . it may . . . . run<br />
spontaneously to the JACK.<br />
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.<br />
JACK.<br />
1811. Lex. Bal. S.V. JACK.<br />
3. (old : now recognised).- A<br />
contrivance to assist a person in<br />
taking off his boots ; a bootjack.<br />
1690. B. E., Did. Cant. Crew.<br />
S.V. JACK.<br />
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.v.<br />
JACK.<br />
4. (old : now colloquial).-<br />
The Knave in any of the four
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