Jack. - Horntip

jasey. 40 jaw.
1851-61. MAvnEw, London Lab.
and Loud. Poor, iti 360. He didn't take
the corners or ;he crossings careful
enough for a regular JARVEY.
1882. SERJ. BALLANTINE, ExPeriences,
ch. ii, p. 19 (6th ed.). The driver
[of a hackney-coach] was called a jARVEY,
a compliment paid to the class in consequence
of one of them named Jarvis
having been hanged.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 16 Dec.
The assembled Londoners placed more
faith in the real four-wheeler, the grey
horse, and the loquacious JARVEY.
2. (old).-A hackney coach.
1823. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry,
n. 4. A rattler . . . . is a rumbler,
otherwise a JARVEY . . . . better known
perhaps by the name of a hack.
1835. T. Hocm, Gilbert Gurney,
1. I stepped into the litter, . . . . at
the bottom of the JARVY.
Land Sharks 67.
1838. GLASCOCK
Sea Gulls, i, 203. And ' now . . . . was
lAraddy seen to enter a jArtvEv, and to
drive from the Temple Court.
1865. G. F. BERKELEY, lIfy Life,
i. 275. Dan McKinnon slipped through
the windows of the first, and so on out
of the others till the whole string of
JARVIES were bumping in procession to
the destination, having no one in them.
JASEY (or JAZEY), subs. (old).-i.
A worsted wig. COVE WITH
A JAZEY = judge.
1789. PARKER, Life's Painter, 172.
Wig, JASEY.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1837. BARHAM, Ingoldsby Legends,
'Jerry Jarvis's Wig '. With an infrenzied
grasp he tore the JASEY from his head.
Ibid. 'The Coronation'. All jools from
his JASEY to his di'mond boots.
1841. Punch, i. 208. If you only
see his big cock'd hat, Stuck up on the
top of his JAZY.
1842. LEVER, Jack Hinton, iii.
_
The head would have been bald but for
a scanty wig, technically called a JASY,
which shrunk by time, merely occupied
the apex of the scalp.
1869. THACKERAY, Lyra Hiber-
Molony's Lament.' When spring
with its buds and its dasies, Comes out
in her beauty and bloom, Them tu'll
never think of new JASIES.
1895. Sporting Times, No. 1653, p.
9. There is nothing to he ashamed of
in wearing a JASEY.
2. (American thieves').-A
man with an enormous quantity
of hair upon his head and face.
-MATSELL (1 8 5 9).
JASKER, subs. (American thieves').
A seal.-MATSELL (1859). Cf.
JARK.
JASON'S FLEECE, subs. phr. (Old
Cant.).-A citizen cheated of his
gold.-B. E. (1690); GROSE
(1785).
JAum, verb. (thieves').-To discover.
1821. HAOCART, Life, 57. McBean
. . . . JAUM'D a scout on the chimneypiece.
JAW, subs. (vulgar).-Abuse; chatter;
impudence; any sort of talk. HOLD
(or STOW) YOUR JAW = bold your
tongue. ALL JAW, LIKE A SHEEP'S
HEAD = nothing but talk.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Chinmusic
; gab (or gob); lingo ; lip
lobs ; patter; snaffle.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Le debe=
rage (popular); une coup de gaffe
(general) ; la jactance (thieves') ;
la jappe (popular) ; le jaspin
(thieves').
ITALIAN SYNONYMS. Canzonamento
; con trapunto (= counterpoint).
SPANISH SYNONYMS. Champarrado
; chapurrado ; dichido.
1748. SMOLLETT, Roderick Random,
None of your JAW, you swab'. . . .
replied my uncle.
1751. SMOLLETT, Peregrine Pickle,
xxxii. Desiring him to do his duty
without farther JAW.