Jimmy Skinner, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A dinner.
Jimplecute (or Jimpsecute), subs. (American).—See quot.
1870. Figaro, 1 Dec. The Jimplecute of Texas changed her name,
which was a good thing to do—jimplecute being Texas vernacular for
sweetheart.
Jing-bang, subs. (Scots’).—A lot complete; boiling (q.v.).
1891. Stevenson, Kidnapped, 61. The men had a great respect for the
chief mate, who was, as they said, ‘the only seaman of the whole
jing-bang, and none such a bad man when he was sober.’
Jingle, subs. (Irish).—A hackney carriage (Dublin).
1860. Trollope, Castle Richmond, vi. An elderly man was driven up
to the door of the hotel on a one horse car—a jingle as such
conveniences were called in the South of Ireland.
Jingle-box, subs. (old).—See quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Jingle Boxes, leathern jacks tipped
with silver, and hung with bells formerly in use among fuddlecaps
(Cant).
Jingleboy. See Gingle boy.
1658. Brome, The Weeding of Covent-Garden, p. 16. But Mistress,
here is a Gallant now below, A gingle-boy indeed.
Jingler, subs. (old).—See quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Jinglers, horse cosers frequenting
country fairs.
Jinglebrains, subs. (colloquial).—A wild, harum-scarum fellow.—B. E.
(1690); Grose (1785).
Jingo, intj. (common).—Used in mild oaths: as By Jingo! or By Jings.
[Halliwell: a corruption of St. Gingoulph or Gingulphus; by others from
Basque Jinkoa = God. Cf. Notes and Queries, 2 S. xii. 272, 336; 5 S.
ix. 263, 400, x. 7, 96, 456; 6 S. i. 284, ii. 95, 157, 176, 335, iii.
78, iv. 114, 179]. Also By the Living Jingo.
1691–2. Gentlemen’s Journal, Feb., p. 24. Hye, jingo what a deel’s
the matter; Do mermaids swim in Dartford water?
1764. O’Hara, Midas, ii. vi. By jingo! well performed for one of
his age.
1766. Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, ix. She observed, that, ‘by
the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.’
1773. O. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, v. 2. By jingo, there’s
not a pond or a slough within five miles of the place, but they can
tell the taste of.
1824. Atlanta Monthly, i. 141. He swore by George, by Jingo and by
Gemini.
1834. M. G. Dowling, Othello Travestie, i. 6. It is the way, by
jingo, you are right.
1836. Michael Scott, Tom Cringle’s Log, v. Dem sell a me Peter, by
jingo.
1848. Punch, xiv. 172. If I kill you it’s nothing; but if you kill
me, by jingo it’s murder.
1850. F. E. Smedley, Frank Fairleigh, xxvi. There’s the coach, by
jingo!
1860. Chambers’ Jour., xiii. 233. ‘Uncle Bob, by jingo!’ said the
boy.
1864. Press, November 12. Jenco is Basque for the Devil and in the
Basque Provinces there were of old Manichæans, who worshipped the
evil spirit and naturally swore by him, hence we think the phrase
[By jingo] may find a much more likely explanation [than St.
Gingoulph].
1871. A. H. Clough, Poems. ‘With the Lassie? with her?’ the piper
exclaimed undoubtedly! ‘by great jingo!’
1878. C. H. Wall, tr. Molière, ii. 114. Gently if you please; by
jingo, how skilful you are in giving clean plates!
1889. Drage, Cyril, ii. ‘Inez de Ribera, by the living jingo!’ said
he, half out aloud.
1892. Henley and Stevenson, Deacon Brodie, Tab. ii, sc. 2. By
jingo! I’ll show them how we do it down South.
Subs. (political).—One of that party which advocated the Turkish cause
against Russia, in the war of 1877–8. Hence, one clamorous for war; one
who advocates a warlike policy. [In this sense taken directly from the
refrain of a popular music-hall song (c. 1874), ‘We don’t want to
fight, but by Jingo if we do, We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men,
we’ve got the money too!’]. Hence Jingoism = the theory and practice of
the Jingoes.
1884. Graphic, 22 Nov. He is a more pernicious kind of Jingo than
his predecessors.
1884. Pall Mall Gazette, 12 June. In the days when Jingoism had to
be combatted and overcome.
1895. John Morley, in The Times, 17th June, p. 7, col. 5. But then
the right honourable gentleman will ask, Have you proposed a statue
to Cromwell from the point of view of Jingoism?
Jiniper-lecture, subs. (old).—A scolding.—B. E. (1690). Cf. Curtain
lecture.
Jink, subs. (old).—1. Coin; money; chink (q.v.).