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Jack Adams.
JACK-THE-PAINTER, Subs. (Au-
stralian). A much adulterated
green tea used in the bush.
1852. MuNDAv, Our Antifiocles,
[quoted in Slang, Jargon, & Cant. '].
Another notorious ration tea of the bush
is called JACK-THE-PAINTER.
JACK - THE - SLIPPER, subs.
(thieves'). The treadmill. For
synonyms see WHEEL OF LIFE.
To JACK THE INTERIM, verb.
(thieves').—To be remanded.
TO JACK UP, verb. (common).—
To clinch ; to abandon ; TO
CHUCK; (q.v.); JACKED-UP =
ruined ; done for.
1888. ROLF BOLDREWOOD, Robbery
Under Arms, xix. Not but what I'd
had a lot to bear, and took a deal of
punishment before he JACKED UP.
1889. Answers, 23 March, p. 265,
col. 2. When a man JACKS UP his
work—will not do his tasks that is to say.
JACK ADAMS, subs. (old).—A fool.
For synonyms see BUFFLE and
CABBAGE-HEAD.
1690. B. E., Diet. Cant. Crew., s.v.
1725. New Cant. Diet., S.V. JACK
ADAMS, a fool. JACK ADAMS' Parish,
Clerkenwell.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1812. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1883. CLARK RUSSELL, Sailor's
Language, s.v.
JACK-A-DANDY, subs. (old).-1. A
little fop ; a coxcomb ; a DANDI-
PRAT (q.v.): also JACK DANDY.
For synonyms see DANDY.
1632. BROME, Northern Lass, iii. 2.
I'll throw him into the dock rather than
that he shall succeed JACK-O-DANDY.
1664. ETHEREGE, ComicalRevenge,
ii. 3, [in Works (17o4) 28]. Leave her,
she's only worth the care Of some spruce
JACK-A-DANDY.
1690. B. E., Diet. Cant. Crew.
S.V. JACK-A-DANDY, a little impertinent
insignificant Fellow.
26 Jackanapes.
1795. R. CUMBERLAND, The 7ew,
i. And when my monies is all gone,
what shall I be then ? An ass, a fool,
a JACK-A-DANDY ! '
1823. BEE, Dia. of the Turf., s.v.
JACK-0'-DANDY. . . . Of Dandy manners,
foolish, proud, and choleric as a turkey
or dindon.
1839. AINswoRTH, yack SheAtard,
[ed. 1840], p. 141. Because they're in
the next room, and the door's shut;
that's vy, my JACK-A-DANDY ! ' replied
Abraham, unsuspiciously.
1881. J. B. HARWOOD, in Cassell's
Mag., Feb. 164. ' I take it very unkind
o' you, Sir, to have gone tempting and
luring my hands away to your own
three mills, and be hanged to you for
a JACK-A-DANDY, there ! '
2. (rhyming). Brandy.
J AC K-A-GR E EN. See JACK-IN-THE-
GREEN under JACK.
JACK-A-LENT, subs. (old).—i. A
dapperling ; a dwarf ; and (2) a
simpleton : also JACK-0'-LENT.
1596. SHAKSPEARE, Merry Wives,
iii. 3. You little JACK-A-LENT, have
you been true to us ?
1596. NASHE, Have with You etc.
in Works [GRosART, 1882-3, iii. 78]. For
his stature be is such another pretie
JACK-A-LENT.
1602. COOKE, How to Choose a Good
Wife [DonsLEv Old Plays (1874), ix.
41]. That JACK-A-LENT, that ghost, that
shadow, that moon in the wane.
JACKANAPES, subs. (old colloquial).
—An absurd fop ; a whippersnapper
: a general term of re-
proach. JACKANAPES-COAT = a
dandy-coat (PEPYs). [Originally,
no doubt, a gaudy-suited and performing
ape (the word is still good
Scots for a monkey ; cf. SCOTT,
Redgauntlet); and, hence, by implication
anybody at once ugly
(or diminutive), showy, and impudent.
Also a JACK-OF-APES