Jack. - Horntip

Joe.
1842. Punch's Almanack, Aug.
Each baited with a JOEY.
1851-61. MAYHEW, Lona'. Lab., ii.
218. The chance hands are sometimes
engaged for half a day, and, I was told,
jump at a bob and a JOEY (IS. 4d.), or
at a bob.
1865. H. KINGSLEY, The Hillyars
and the Burtons, xlii. A young man as
has owed me a joEv ever since the last
blessed Greenwich fair.
1869. WHYTE-MEINILLE, M. or N.,
p. 66. 'Done for another joEY,' replied
Buster, with the premature acuteness of
youth foraging for itself in the streets of
London.
1883. Antiquary, April, p. 168, col.
2. The fourpenny piece was coined for
the first time, after a lapse of two centuries,
in the reign of William iv., and it
owed its existence to the pressing instance
of JOEY Hume, after whom it
obtained the name of JOEY.
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 9 Oct., p. 5,
col. 3. The docker's wife was worth her
JOEY, which it may be explained is 'Eastend'
for fourpence.
1892. S. WATSON, Wefts the Waif,
p. 13. A bob, a tanner, a JOEY, and a
brown.
2. (common).- SeeJOE MILLER.
3. (American university).-A
watercloset. For synonyms see
MR. JONES.
4. (nautical).-A marine : see
JOSEPH.
5. (American).-A lobster too
small for sale ; i.e. one under ten
inches long.
6. (old).-A gold coin. (Portu.
and Braz.) = 8 to 9 dollars. Also
DOUBLE-JOE.
1825. NEAL, Bro. 7onalhan, H. xxiii.
JoEs to coppers that she speaks to me.
1837. BARHAM, Ingoldsby Legends,
Preface v. The old house is full of shootingjackets,
shot belts, and DOUBLE-JOES.
7. (old).-A companion ; a
sweetheart.
66 Joe Miller.
d.1529. SKELTON, Against / he Scottes,
in Wks (DYcE),i. /85. Kynge Jamy, . . .
my Jo.
1659. BROME, The English Moor,
in Wks. (1873), i. 3. Clap him, and stroke
him : Ha, my JOE,
1635. GLAPTHORNE, The Hollander,
in 1Vks. (1874), i. i5i. The Twibil Knights
(confusion to them, my Jo !) had made
me drunk.
1727. RAMSAY, Bonny Tweed-side,
in Wks. (1848), ii. 244. I'll make it my
care To secure myself a Jo.
d.1796. BURNS, 'John Anderson, my
Jo' [Title).
Verb. (theatrical).-To deride ;
TO GET AT (q.v.); to take liberties
with the text, business ', or audience.
1865. KINGSLEY, The Halyards and
the Burtons, liii. Gertie adduced the
fate of the children who had called after
-or, as she expressed, joED-the prophet
Elisha.
1866. Pall Mall Gazelle, 23 Jan.,
p. 244. There they was JOEYING away in
style, making the people laugh until the
house shook again.
NOT FOR JOE.-See JOSEPH.
JOE MANTON, subs. (old).-A
name given to fowling-pieces made
by Joseph Manton, a celebrated
London gunsmith. Also MAN-
TON.
JOE MILLER, subs. phi-. (common).
-A stale joke; a dull tale ; a CHES-
NUT (q.v.). [From a collection
entitled Joe Miller's Jest book
published circa 1750, the term
having been used to pass off not
only the original stock but thousands
of jokes manufactured long
after]. Hence JOE-MILLERIsm
(subs .)andJoE-MILLERIzE (verb.).
1789. GEO. PARKER, Life's Painter,
96. The Narrator should not laugh immoderately,
and what he delivers, should
not be found in every common jest book,
or a JoE MILLER, page 14.