Jack. - Horntip

Jemmy-john. 46 Jericho.
JEMMY-JOHN, subs. (common).—A
demijohn.
1861. MARSH, Lectures on the
English Language, (q. v. for Etymology
from Damaghan a town in Khorassan,
once famons for its glass works).
1873. T. B. ALDRICH, Marjorie
Daw &c. p. 76 (TAucHNITz). A gill
o' wather out of a JIMMY-JOHN 'd fuddle
him, mum.'
JEMMY O'GOBLIN, subs. phr. (theatrical).—A
sovereign. For synonyms
see CANARY.
J EN KINS' HEN. To DIE LIKE
JENKINS' HEN, verb.phr. (Scots').
— To die unmarried.
1805. A. SCOTT, Poems, The Old
Maid', p. 87. I ance had sweethearts
nine or ten, And dearly dawted wi' the
men But Oh! the DEATH OF
JENKINS' HEN, I shudder at it.
JENNY, subs. (colloquial).—i. A
she-ass.
2. (thieves').—A small crowbar
; formerly BETTY or BESS
(q.v.): also a hook on the end
of a stick.
1690. B. E., Did. Cant. Crew,
S.V. JENNY, an instrument to lift up a
grate, and whip anything out of a shop
window.
1725. New. Cant. Did. s.v.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
3. (billiards').—A losing hazard
into the middle pocket off a ball
an inch or two from the side
cushion.
4. (popular).—A hot water
bottle.
JENNYLINDA, subs. (rhyming).—A
window.
JEREMY DIDDLER, s2ebs.phr. (cornmon).--A
SHARK (q.v.); a shabby
swindling borrower.
1803. KENNEY, Raising the Wind.
[Among the Dramatis Persona', is
JEREMY DIDDLER].
1840. LYTTON, Money, iv. 5. Blount.
And he borrowed L*700 of me ! Gloss.
And L' 600 of me ! Sir John. And
£500 of me ! Stout. Oh! a regular
JEREMY DIDDLER !
1843. THACKERAY, Irish Sketch
Book, xiii. As for trade, there seemed
to be none : a great JEREMY-DIDDLER
kind of hotel stood hard by, swaggering
and out-at-elbows.
1857. THACKERAY, Virginians, XXXl.
POO! JEREMY DIDDLER calls about eleven
o'clock for another half-sovereign.
1895. St. James's Gazelle, 15 June,
p. 13. Your deeply obliged, JEREMY-
DIDDLER.
JERICHO, subs. (old).— I. A place
of concealment or banishment ;
latterly and specifically, a prison :
e.g. as in phr. GO TO JERICHO =
Go to the devil. [Generically, a
place of retirement, cf. 2 Sam.
x: 4 and 5].
1635. HEYWOOD, Hierarch ie, iv.
p. 208. Bid such young boyes to stay
in JERICHO Untill their beards were
growne, their wits more staid.
1648. Mercurius Aulicus quoted in
iithenieum. Nov. 14. 1874, p. 645. Let
them all GOE TO JERICHO, And n'ere be
seen againe.
1758. A. MURPHY, The Uftholsterer,
ii. He may GO TO JERICHO for what I
cares.
1775. D'ARBLAY, Diary (1876),V ol.
i. p. 167. I should wish all my new
friends AT JERICHO.
1857. THACKERAY, Virginians,xvi.
She may go to Tunbridge, or she may
go to Bath, or she may GO TO JERICHO
for me.'
2. (common).—A watercloset.
For synonyms see Mrs. JONES.
3. (Oxford university).—A low
quarter of Oxford.