Jack. - Horntip

Jackrum.
1811. Lex. Bid., s.v.
1836. M. SCOTT, Cruise of the
Midge [ed. I8.3 p. 295. BEFORE YOU
COULD SAY JACK ROBINSON, the pursuer's
starboard leg was whipped out of Jack
Lennox's clutches.
1837. BARHAM, Ingola'sby Legends
[ed. 1842] p. 256. I have not a doubt,
I shall rout every tout, ERE YOU'LL
WHISPER JACK ROBINSON.
1846. Punch, xi. 9. Here it was
he married my mother whose name was
Robinson, whose ancestor was the famous
JACK ROBINSON of whom is still retained
a popular proverb relating to rapidity of
expression.
JACKRUM, subs. (old).--A marriage
license.-Modern Flash Did.
(1825).
J AC K- SA U C E, subs. (old).-An impudent
fellow; a SAUCE-BOX (q.v.).
1S71. EDWARDS, Damon and
Pit/teas (DoDsLEv, 0. Pl., i. 271). Heere
is a gay world ! boyes now set old men to
scoole : I sayd we! inough ; what, jAcK-
SAWCE, think'st cham a fool?
1593. G. HARVEY, Pierce's Sufier.
in Wks. (GROSART) ii. 328. A JACK-
SAUCE, or vnmannerly puppy.
1597-8. HAUGHTON, A Woman will
have her Will [DoDsLEY, Old Plays
(1874), X. 537]. Well, JACK-SAUCE, The
rogue is waking yet to spoil your sport.
1599. SHAKESPEARE, Henry V, iv. 7.
If he be perjured, see you now, his
reputation is as arrant a villain, and a
JACK SAUCE, as ever. .. . trod upon God's
ground and his earth, in my conscience la.
1602. COOKE, How a Man may
Choose a Good Wife etc. [DonsLEY,
Old Plays (1874), ix. 78]. Why, you
JACK-SAUCE! You cuckold ! you what-not!
1612. FIELD, Woman is a 1Veathercock,
ii. x. What say ye, JAcK SAUCE.
1620. HALL, Honour of the Maried
Clergie, ii § 12. Every JACK-SAUCE ot
Rome shall thus odiously dare to controll
and disgrace it.
1633. JoNsos, Tale of a Tub, iii.
x. Dame 7. Come up, JACK SAUCE.
1638. RANDOLPII, Muses' Looking
Glass, iv. 4. Such a JACK-SAUCE.
32 Jack-Straw.
1659. MASSINGER, City Madam,iV. 2.
Do you SO, JACK SAUCE! I'll keep them
further off.
1702. VANBRUGH, False Friend,
iii. 2. Why how now, JACK-SAUCE? why
how now, Presumption?
1719. DURFEY, Pills 457.e. V. 287.
A sword and buckler good and strong,
To give JACK-SAUCE a rap.
JACK'S DELIGHT, subs. ishr. (corn-
mon).-A sea-port strumpet. For
synonyms see BARRACK-HACK and
TART.
JACK-SHAY, subs. (Australian).-A
tin quart used for boiling tea, and
contrived to hold a tin pint.
1881. GRANT, Bush Life [quoted
in Slang, Jargon & Cant.]. Hobbles
and JACK-SHAYS hang from the Saddledees.
J ACK-SPR AT, subs. (old).-An undersized
man or boy.-GRosE (1785).
1570. Wit and Science [DoDsLEY,
Old Plays (1874), ii. 39]. But what, no
force, ye are but JACK SPRAT to me.
JACK-STRAW, subs. (old).-. 1. A
nobody ; and (2) a dwarf. For
synonyms see HOP-0'-MIT-1'H.UMB.
1596. NASHE, Have With You etc.
in lf -orks [GnosAnz] iii. i 8. These
worthless whippets and IACKE-STRAWES.
1629. Flyting of Polwarth and
Montgomerie (Edin. Montgomerie's
Poems, 1885-6, i. 64]. IACSTRO, be better
anes ingined.
1672. WYcnERLEv, Love in a Wood,
i. 2. YOU are a saucy JACK-STRAW to
question me.
1690. B. E., Diet. Cant. Crew. s.v.
1725. New. Cant. Diet., s.v.
1785. GROSE. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
JACK STRAW'S CASTLE, subs.
1hr. (venery).-The female pudendum.
For synonyms see
MONOSYLLABLE.