Intj. (Australian).—See quot. Also Jo!
1867. The Victorian Song-book, ‘Where’s your License,’ p. 6.
Diggers ain’t often caught on the hop, The little word Joe! which
all of you know, Is a signal the traps are quite near.
Jog, verb. (old venery).—To copulate. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.
1608. R. Middleton, Epigrams, p. 18. Glabreus of late lay with a
common whore, But now he swears he’ll jogge with her no more.
1736. The Cupid, 20. He shou’ll ken I’se nae afraid When he gangs
to bed me, A’ night long I’se ne’er complain, Tho’ he jog’d me
sprightly.
Jogger, verb. (theatrical).—To play and sing; to perform.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, v. I could vardy that when I heard
them joggering.
Joggering Omey, subs. phr. (theatrical).—A musician. [It. giocar = to
play + uomo = a man].
Jog-trot (or Job-trot), subs. (old: now recognised).—A slow trot: hence
a dull round; an unvarying and uninteresting method. As adj.
monotonous; easy-going. Hence, adv.. jog-trotty.
1709. M. Bruce, Sermon, p. 15. You that keeps only your old
job-troot, and does not mend your pace, you will not wone at soul
confirmation. There is a whine old job-troot ministers among us, a
whine old job-troot professors: they have their own pace, and
faster they will not go.
1756. The World, No. 193. They contented themselves indeed with
going on a jog-trot in the common road of application and patience.
1766. Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, xx. All honest jog-trot men,
who go on smoothly and dully.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Jogg-trot.
1852. Dickens, Bleak House, xvii, p. 142. ‘It’s rather jog-trotty
and humdrum. But it’ll do as well as anything else!’
1872. M. E. Braddon, Dead Sea Fruit, i. There is a jog-trot
prosperity in the place, a comfortable air, which is soothing to
the world-worn spirit.
1885. Jas. Payn, Talk of the Town, vii. They ... settled their wigs
upon their foreheads and started off again at a jog trot in search
of another mare’s nest.
1890. St. James’ Gazette, 9 Ap. p. 4, col. 1. Yet the yoke is
meekly borne by the jog-trot undergraduates of Oxford and
Cambridge.
Jogue, subs. (old).—A shilling.—Grose. For synonyms see Bob.
Jogul, verb. (gaming).—To play up at cards, or other game.—Hotten.
John, subs. (Sandhurst).—A first year’s cadet. For synonyms see
Snooker.
2. (old).—A priest. Also Sir John and Mess- (or Mass-) John (q.v.). For
synonyms see Devil-dodger.
1383. Chaucer, Cant. Tales (Skeat) iv. 270. 4000. Com neer, thou
preest, com hider, thou Sir Iohn.
c. 1554. Youth [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 25]. What! Sir John,
what say ye! Would you be fettered now?
1559. Porter, Two Angry Women [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vii.
320]. Leave these considerations to Sir John; they become a
black-coat better than a blue.
1611. Barry, Ram Alley, iv. Speak, answer we, Sir Jack: stole you
my daughter?
1772. Stevens, Songs Comic and Satyrical (1788), 169. The next a
Mess John of rank Methodist taint, Who thought like a sinner, but
looked like a saint.