d. 1529. Skelton, Against the Scots, line 92. King Jamy, Jemmy,
jockey, my jo.
Verb. (colloquial).—1. To cheat; to ride foul. Generally, to use
dishonest means to a profitable end. For synonyms see Bamboozle.
1748. Thompson, Letter to Mr. Paterson, May. ‘Coriolanus has not
yet appeared on the stage, from the little dirty jealousy of Jullus
(Quin) towards him (Garrick) who alone can act Coriolanus. Indeed
the first has entirely jockeyed the last off the stage for this
season.’
1833. Neal, Down Easters, vi. p. 84. Fair traders terrible
scase—most every body jockies for themselves now.
1839. Lever, Harry Loweguer, II. He seemed to think that probably
he ... might be merely jockeyed by some bold-faced poacher.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sketch Book, p. 173. Have we penniless
directors issuing El Dorado prospectuses, and jockeying their
shares through the market?
1865. Dunbar, Social Life in Former Days. They did not see it
necessary to be jockeying one another.
1890. W. C. Russell, Ocean Tragedy, p. 3. To suffer your passion to
jockey your reason.
2. (Winchester College).—(i) to supplant; (ii) to appropriate; (iii) to
engage: e.g. ‘He jockeyed me up to books’; ‘Who has jockeyed my baker’;
‘This court is jockeyed’. Probably an extended use of the word borrowed
from turf slang. Jockey not = the Commoner cry claiming exemption,
answering to ‘feign’ at other schools: of which the college ‘finge’
seems a translation. The opposite of jockey up = to lose down.—Notions.
To jockey (or bag) the over, verb. phr. (cricketter’s).—To manage the
running in such a manner as to get all the bowling to oneself.
Jock Blunt. To look like Jock Blunt, verb. phr. (old).—See quot.
1723. Ramsay, ‘Epistle to Lord Ramsay’, in Wks., ii. 325. Footnote.
Said of a person who is out of countenance at a disappointment.
Jock-te-leear, subs. (Scots’).—A small almanack, i.e. Jock (or John)
the liar [From its loose weather forecasts].
Jocteleg (or Jackyleg), subs. (Scots’).—A large pocket-knife. [From
Jacques de Liège, a famous cutler]. For synonyms see Chive.
1730. Ramsay, Fables and Tales, in Wks. (1849), iii. 172. And lay
out ony ora-bodles On sma’ gimcracks that pleased their noddles,
Sic as a jocteleg, or sheers.
1787. Grose, Provincial Glossary, s.v. Jocteleg, Liege formerly
supplied Scotland with cutlery.
1791. Burns, ‘To Captain Grose’. The knife that nicket Abel’s craig
He’ll prove ye fully, It was a faulding jocteleg Or lang-kail
gully.
1874. E. L. Linton, Patricia Kemball, xxv. A huge buckhorn-handled
knife of the kind called in the north jackylegs, or joctelegs.
Jockum (or Jockam), subs. (Old Cant).—The penis. For synonyms see
Creamstick and Prick. Hence jockum-cloy = copulation, and jockum-gage =
(literally) member-mug (q.v.).
1567. Harman, Caveat, 87. He took his iockam in his famble.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew. s.v. Jockum-gage. Rum Jockum-gage, a
silver chamberpot.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Jockum-gagger, subs. (old).—See Jack-gagger.—Potter (1790); Mod. Flash
Dict. (1825).
Joe (or joey), subs. (common).—1. A fourpenny piece [For derivation see
quot. 1841 and cf. Bob].
1841. Hawkins, Hist. Silver Coinage of England. These pieces are
said to have owed their existence to the pressing instance of Mr.
Hume, from whence they, for some time, bore the nickname of Joeys.
1842. Punch’s Almanack, Aug. Each baited with a joey.
1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., ii. 218. The chance hands are
sometimes engaged for half a day, and, I was told, jump at a bob
and a joey (1s. 4d.), or at a bob.
1865. H. Kingsley, The Hillyars and the Burtons, xlii. A young man
as has owed me a joey ever since the last blessed Greenwich fair.
1869. Whyte-Melville, 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 ‘East-end’ for
fourpence.
1892. S. Watson, Wops the Waif, p. 13. A bob, a tanner, a joey, and
a brown.