Jennylinda, subs. (rhyming).—A window.
Jeremy Diddler, subs. phr. (common).—A shark (q.v.); a shabby swindling
borrower.
1803. Kenney, Raising the Wind. [Among the Dramatis Personæ, is
jeremy diddler].
1840. Lytton, Money, iv. 5. Blount. And he borrowed £700 of me!
Gloss. And £600 of me! Sir John. And £500 of me! Stout. Oh! a
regular jeremy diddler!
1843. Thackeray, Irish Sketch Book, xiii. As for trade, there
seemed to be none: a great jeremy-diddler kind of hotel stood hard
by, swaggering and out-at-elbows.
1857. Thackeray, Virginians, xxxi. Poor jeremy diddler calls about
eleven o’clock for another half-sovereign.
1895. St. James’s Gazette, 15 June, p. 13. Your deeply obliged,
jeremy-diddler.
Jericho, subs. (old).—1. A place of concealment or banishment; latterly
and specifically, a prison: e.g. as in phr. go to Jericho = Go to the
devil. [Generically, a place of retirement, cf. 2 Sam. x: 4 and 5].
1635. Heywood, Hierarchie, iv. p. 208. Bid such young boyes to stay
in Jericho Untill their beards were growne, their wits more staid.
1648. Mercurius Aulicus quoted in Athenæum. Nov. 14. 1874, p. 645.
Let them all goe to Jericho, And ne’er be seen againe.
1758. A. Murphy, The Upholsterer, ii. He may go to Jericho for what
I cares.
1775. D’Arblay, Diary (1876), Vol. i. p. 167. I should wish all my
new friends at Jericho.
1857. Thackeray, Virginians, xvi. ‘She may go to Tunbridge, or she
may go to Bath, or she may go to Jericho for me.’