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Entries releated to JACK

 

BLACK JACK		A nick name given to the Recorder by the Thieves.
BLACK JACK		A jug to drink out of, made of jacked leather.
BLEATERS		Those cheated by Jack in a box. - See JACK IN A BOX.
COLT BOWL		Laid short of the jack by a colt bowler, i.e. a person raw or unexperienced in the art of bowling.
CREW		A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words: MEN. 1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams. WOMEN. 1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes
CROWN OFFICE		The head. I fired into her keel upwards; my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I fucked a woman with her arse upwards, she was so drunk, that her head lay on the ground.
CURTAILS		Thieves who cut off pieces of stuff hanging out of shop windows, the tails of women's gowns, etc.; also, thieves wearing short jackets.
DONKEY, DONKEY DICK		A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, intitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter.
DUN		An importunate creditor. Dunny, in the provincial dialect of several counties, signifies DEAF; to dun, then, perhaps may mean to deafen with importunate demands: some derive it from the word DONNEZ, which signifies GIVE. But the true original meaning of the word, owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active, and so dexterous in his business, that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay, Why do not you DUN him? that is, Why do not you set Dun to attest him? Hence it became a cant word, and is now as old as since the days of Henry VII. Dun was also the general name for the hangman, before that of Jack Ketch. And presently a halter got, Made of the best strong hempen teer, And ere a cat could lick her ear, Had tied it up with as much art, As DUN himself could do for's heart. Cotton's Virgil Trav. book iv.
GILL		The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively used for woman. Every jack has his gill; i.e. every jack has his gillian, or female mate.
GLIM JACK		A link-boy.
HANS IN KELDER		Jack in the cellar, i.e. the child in the womb: a health frequently drank to breeding women or their husbands.
JACK		A farthing, a small bowl serving as the mark for bowlers. An instrument for pulling off boots.
JACK ADAMS		A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell.
JACK AT A PINCH		A poor hackney parson.
JACK IN A BOX, A sharper, or cheat		A child in the mother's womb.
JACK IN AN OFFICE		An insolent fellow in authority.
JACK KETCH		The hangman; vide DERRICK and KETCH.
JACK NASTY FACE		A sea term, signifying a common sailor.
JACK OF LEGS		A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfordshire, where there are two stones fourteen feet distant, said to be the head and feet stones of his grave. This giant, says Salmon, as fame goes, lived in a wood here, and was a great robber, but a generous one; for he plundered the rich to feed the poor: he frequently took bread for this purpose from the Baldock bakers, who catching him at an advantage, put out his eyes, and afterwards hanged him upon a knoll in Baldock field.
JACK PUDDING		The merry andrew, zany, or jester to a mountebank.
JACK ROBINSON		Before one could say Jack Robinson; a saying to express a very short time, originating from a very volatile gentleman of that appellation, who would call on his neighbours, and be gone before his name could be announced.
JACK SPRAT		A dwarf, or diminutive fellow.
JACK TAR		A sailor.
JACK WEIGHT		A fat man.
JACK WHORE		A large masculine overgrown wench.
JACKANAPES		An ape; a pert, ugly, little fellow.
JACKED		Spavined. A jacked horse.
JACKEY		Gin.
JACKMEN		See JARKMEN.
JINGLE BOXES		Leathern jacks tipped with silver, and hung with bells, formerly in use among fuddle caps.
JOHNNY BUM		A he or jack ass: so called by a lady that affected to be extremely polite and modest, who would not say Jack because it was vulgar, nor ass because it was indecent.
KETCH		Jack Ketch; a general name for the finishers of the law, or hangmen, ever since the year 1682, when the office was filled by a famous practitioner of that name, of whom his wife said, that any bungler might put a man to death, but only her husband knew how to make a gentleman die sweetly.
LACING		Beating. I'll lace your jacket handsomely.
LICK		To beat; also to wash, or to paint slightly over. I'll give you a good lick o' the chops; I'll give you a good stroke or blow on the face. Jack tumbled into a cow t - d, and nastied his best clothes, for which his father stept up, and licked him neatly. - I'll lick you! the dovetail to which is, If you lick me all over, you won't miss - .
MERRY ANDREW, or MR		MERRYMAN. The jack pudding, jester, or zany of a mountebank, usually dressed in a party-coloured coat.
PATTER		To talk. To patter flash; to speak flash, or the language used by thieves. How the blowen lushes jackey, and patters flash; how the wench drinks gin, and talks flash.
PICKLE		An arch waggish fellow. In pickle, or in the pickling tub; in a salivation. There are rods in brine, or pickle, for him; a punishment awaits him, or is prepared for him. Pickle herring; the zany or merry andrew of a mountebank. See JACK PUDDING.
SKIP JACKS		Youngsters that ride horses on sale, horse- dealers boys. Also a plaything made for children with the breast bone of a goose.
SPORT		To exhibit: as, Jack Jehu sported a new gig yesterday: I shall sport a new suit next week. To sport or flash one's ivory; to shew one's teeth. To sport timber; to keep one's outside door shut; this term is used in the inns of court to signify denying one's self. N.B. The word SPORT was in great vogue ann. 1783 and 1784.
TAR		Don't lose a sheep for a halfpennyworth of tar: tar is used to mark sheep. A jack tar; a sailor.
TRIMMING		Cheating, changing side, or beating. I'll trim his jacket; I'll thresh him. To be trimmed; to be shaved; I'll just step and get trimmed.
WHIP JACKS		The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit passes, pretending to be sailors shipwrecked on the neighbouring coast, and on their way to the port from whence they sailed.
ZANY		The jester, jack pudding, or merry andrew, to a mountebank.