Jack. - Horntip

feller. 5
1594. Look About You [DoDsLEy,
Old Plays (1874), vii. 436]. Thus JETS
my noble Skink along the streets To
whom each bonnet vails, and all knees
bend.
1602. S H A KSPE A RE , Twelfth Night,
ii. 5. How he JETS under his advanced
plumes.
1640. RAWLINS, The Rebellion, ii.
The proudest creatures ; you shall have
them JET it with an undaunted boldness.
To JET ONE'S JUICE, verb. phr.
(venery).—To COME (q.v.); to
experience the sexual spasm.
J Eli ER, subs. (old).—A pompous
man ; a STRUT-NODDY (q.v.). See
JET, verb.
1510. Hycke Scorner, [DoDsLEv,
Old Plays (1874), i. 164]. Brawlers, liars,
JETTERS, and chiclers.
1540. HEYWOOD, Four P' s[DopsiEv ,
Old Plays (1874), i. 384]. What, should
a beggar be a JETTER ?
JEW, subs. (colloquial).—I. A
cheat ; a hard bargainer; a sharking
usurer.
1659. BROME, The English Moor,
in Wks (1873), ii. 45 (Act iii. 1). The
best, Sir, I can tell is, the old JEw,
Quicksands, hath lost his wife.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew.,
S.V. JEW. . . . He treated me like a
JEW, he used me very barbarously.
1725. New Cant. Diet., s.v.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Verb. (colloquial).—To drive a
hard bargain ; to beat down. Also
to cheat.
C.1871. California Flush Times, [quo-
ted in DE VERE]. To JEW, colloquially
known in England as meaning to cheat,
is here often used in the sense of haggling,
bargaining. 'Don't you think the old
hunks wanted to JEW me down to three
thousand dollars?'
1883. M. TWAIN, Life on the Mir-
p. 390. There's one thing
in this world which isn't ever cheap.
That's a coffin. There's one thing in
this world which a person don't ever
try TO JEW you down on. That's a coffin.
jewkrk.
WORTH A JEW'S EYE, phr.
(colloquial).—Extremely valuable ;
worth its weight in gold '. [In
the Middle Ages the Jews were
subject to great extortions, and
many stories are related of eyes
put out, or teeth drawn, to enforce
payment].
1593. G. HARVEY, Pierces Sufier.,
in Works, ii. 146. Let it euerlastingly
be recorded for a souerain Rule, as
deare as a JEWES EYE.
1598. SHAKSPEARE, Merchant of
Venice, ii. 5. There will come a Christian
by Will be WORTH A JEWES EYE.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1838. HALIBURTON, Clockmaker,
2 S. xxi. ' Tho' they are no good to
you they are WORTH A JEW'S EYE to us,
and have 'em we will.'
J EW-BAIL, subs. (old).—STRAW-BAIL
(q.v.).
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1823. BEE, Dia. of the Turf, s.v. .
J EW - BUTT ER, subs. (American).—
Goose-grease.
J EW - FEN C ER, subs. (common).—A
Jew street buyer or salesman,
generally of stolen goods.
(American).—
A general exclamation of surprise.
EWH !LUKENS ! intj.
b.1872. Country Merchant, p. 221,
(quoted by DE VERE). Now they are
coming to the rich licks ! JEWHILLIKIN !
J EWLARK, verb. (American).—To
fool around ': a' portmanteau' verb
of action. [See JEW = to delude
+ LARK = irresponsible action].
1851. HOOPER, Widow Rugby's
Husband, p. 59. Wonder if I'll ketch
that rascal Jim Sparks JEWLARKIN' round
Betsy.