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Jack-Nasty.
JACK-NASTY, subs. (common).—A
sneak ; a sloven : cf. JACK-NASTY-
FACE.
1856. HUGHES, Tom Brown's
School-Days, I. iii. Tom and his
younger brothers, as they grew up, went
on playing with the village boys, without
the idea of equality or inequality (except
in wrestling, running, and climbing)
ever entering their heads, as it doesn't
till it's put there by JACK NASTYS or
fine ladies' maids.
J AC K- N AST Y - FAC E, subs. (old).—r.
A sailor ; specifically a cook.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1884. G. A. SALA, in Ill. Lond.
News April 12, p. 339, C01. 3. I should
be glad to learn . . . . why the cook's
mate is called JACK-NASTY-FACE.'
2. (common).—A filthy or
unpleasant-looking person : cf.
JACK-NASTY.
1823. BEE, Dict. of the Turf., S.V.
JACK-NASTY-FACE — a dirty fellow.
JACK - PUDDING, subs. (old).—A
serving merry-andrew ; a lowclass
buffoon. Fr. jean-pottage
(=jack-soup); Germ. Hans-wurst
(= jack-sausage) ; Dutch, pickelherringe
; It. macaroni. Hence
JACK-PUDDINGHOOD (WALPOLE)
= buffoonery.
1650-51. MILTON, Defence y
People of England, i. The extempore
rhymes of some antic JACK-PUDDING may
deserve printing better.
1653. ASTON COCKAINE. ' On Mr.
Richard Brome's Playes.' Our theatres of
lower note in those More happy daies
Shall scorn the rustic prose Of a JACK-
PUDDING.
1664. ETHEREGE, Comical Revenge,
iii. 4, in Wks (1704), 35. He was JACK-
PUDDING to a Mountebank, and turned
off for want of wit.
1670. J. EACHARD, Contenzpl of the
Clergy, in Arber's Garner, vii, p. 265.
Those usually that have been Rope
Dancers in the Schools, oft times prove
JACK-PUDDINGS in the Pulpit.
3 1 Jack Robinson.
1672. W. WYCHERLEY, Love in a
Wood, I. 2. He is a mere buffoon, a
JACK-PUDDING.
1691-2. Gentlemen's Yournal, Jan.,
p. 35. All its inhabitants are JACK-PUD-
DINGS born.
1757. FOOTE, The Author [1782],
46. A JACK-PUDDING! that takes fillips
on the nose for sixpence a piece.
1772. G. A. STEVENS, Songs Comic
and Satyrical, p. 50. SO JACK-PUDDINGS
joke, with distorted grimace, Benetting
their gudgeons, the croud.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1795. R. CUMBERLAND, The yew,
iv. 2: ... You are a saucy knave
to make a joke of your master. Do you
think I will keep a JACK-PUDDING in my
house like you, to listen at my keyhole
and betray my conversation.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v
1825. SCOTT, St. Ronan's Well,
iii. The JACK-PUDDING to the company,
whose business it was to crack the best
joke, and sing the best song, he could.
1849. MAcAuLikv,Hist. ofEnglana',
vi. Booth had bitterly complained to the
Commons that the dearest of his constituents
were entrusted to a drunken JACK-
PUDDING.
1881. BESANT & RICE. Chafi. of
Fleet, pt. 1. They were again jocund,
light-hearted, the oracle of the tavern,
the jester and JACK PUDDING of the Feast.
JACK RAN DALL, subs. phr. (rhyming).
—A candle. [The name of a
famous pugilist].
JACK ROBINSON, subs. (venery).—
The penis. For synonyms see
CREAMSTICK and PRICK.
BEFORE ONE CAN SAY JACK
ROBINSON ', phr. (common).—
Instantly ; in the shortest possible
time ; IN TWO-TWO'S (q.v.).
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.
JACK ROBINSON . . . . a saying to express
a very short time, originating from a
very volatile gentleman of that appellation,
who would call on his neighbours,
and be gone before his name could be
announced.