Jayhawker, subs. (political American).—A freebooter; a guerilla:
specifically a marauder during the Kansas troubles and since extended
to all bandits.
1887. G. W. Cable, Century, xxxiii, 360. He and his father are
catching the horses of the dead and dying jay-hawkers.
Jeames, subs. (common).—1. A footman; a flunkey.
1845–6. Thackeray, Jeames’ Diary. [Title].
1857. Thackeray, Virginians, xxxvi. That noble old race of footmen
is well nigh gone ... and Uncas with his tomahawk and eagle’s
plume, and jeames with his cocked hat and long cane, are passing
out of the world where they once walked in glory.
1876. J. Grant, One of the Six Hundred, xv. Where, doubtless, she
and her family would be on a Sunday, in their luxuriously-cushioned
pew, attended by a tall jeames in plush, carrying a great Bible, a
nosegay, and gold headed cane.
1891. Licensed Victuallers’ Mirror, 30 Jan., p. 6, col. 3. The
Jeameses and Allplushes who frequent that part of the town.
1892. Tit Bits, 19 Mar, p. 421, col. 1. Mutton-chop whiskers ...
are now little seen, save on the physiognomy of jeames Yellowplush.