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Jock-Blunt. 65 Joe.
riolanus. Indeed the first has entirely
JOCKEYED the last off the stage for this
season.
1833. NEAL, Down Easters, vi. p.
84. Fair traders terrible scase—most every
body jocKIEs for themselves now.
1839. LEVER, Harry Loweguer, II.
He seemed to think that probably he
. . . might be merely JOCKEYED by some
bold-faced poacher.
1840. THACKERAY, Paris Sketch
Book, p. 173. Have we penniless directors
issuing El Dorado prospectuses, and
JOCKEYING their shares through the
market?
1865. DUNBAR, Social Life in Former
Days. They did not see it necessary
to be JOCKEYING one another.
1890. W. C. RUSSELL, Ocean Tragedy,
p. 3. To suffer your passion to
JOCKEY your reason.
2. (Winchester College).—(i) to
supplant ; (ii) to appropriate ;
to engage : ep,-. He JOCKEYED
me up to books' ; 'Who has
JOCKEYED my baker' ; This
court is JOCKEYED Probably an
extended use of the word borrowed
from turf slang. JOCKEY NOT
= the Commoner cry claiming
exemption, answering to 'feign' at
other schools : of which the college
finge ' seems a translation. The
opposite of JOCKEY UP = to lose
down.—Notions.
To JOCKEY (or BAG) THE OVER,
verb.phr. (cricketter's).—To manage
the running in such a manner
as to get all the bowling to oneself.
JOCK BLUNT. To LOOK LIKE jOCK
BLUNT, verb. phr. (old).—See
quot.
1723. RAMSAY, Epistle to Lord
Ramsay ', in Wks, ii. 325. Footnote.
Said of a person who is out of countenance
at a disappointment.
JOCK-TE-LEEAR, subs. (Scots').—A
small almanack, i.e. JOCK (or JoHN)
VOL. IV.
THE LIAR [From its loose weather
forecasts].
JOCTELEG (or JACKYLEG), subs.
(Scots').—A large pocket-knife.
[From Jacques de Liege, a famous
cutler]. For synonyms see CHIVE.
1730. RAMSAY, Fables and Tales,
in Wks. (1849), iii. 172. And lay out ony
ora-bodles On sma' gimcracks that pleased
their noddles, Sic as a Joc ri:LEo, or
sheers.
1787. GRosE, Provincial Glossary,
S.V. Joc -rELEo, Liege formerly supplied
Scotland with cutlery.
1791. BURNS, To Captain Grose '.
The knife that nicket Abel's craig He'll
prove ye fully, It was a faulding-
JOCTELEG Or lang-kail gully.
1874. E. L. LINTON, Patricia
Kentball, xxv. A huge buckhorn-handled
knife of the kind called in the north
JACKYLEGS, or JOCTELEGS.
JOCKUM (or JOCKAM), subs. (Old
Cant).—The penis. For synonyms
see CREAMSTICK and PRICK.
Hence JOCKUM-CLOY = copulation,
and JOCKUM-GAGE = (literally)
MEMBER-MUG (q.v.).
1567. HARMAN, Caveat, 87. He
took his IOCKAM in his famble.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant, Crew.s.v.
JOCKUM-GAGE. RUM JOCKUM-GAGE, a silver
chamberpot.
1725. New Cant. Di -t., s.v.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue.
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
JOCKUM-GAGGER, subs. (old).—See
JACK-GAGGER.—POTTER ( I 790) ;
Mod. Flash Dia. (1825).
JOE (or JOEY), subs. (common).—i.
A fourpenny piece [For derivation
see quot. 1841 and cf. BOB].
1841. HAWKINS, MS/. Silver Coinage
of England. These pieces are said
to have owed their existence to the pressing
instance of Mr. Hume, from whence
they, for some time, bore the nickname
of JOEYS.
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