Judas-hole, subs. (common).—A spy-hole in a door (see quot. 1893); also
Judas.
1856. C. Reade, Never too Late etc. [Century]. He knew the world as
he had seen it through judas-holes, chiefly in its foulness and
impurity.
1883. Century, xxvii. 75. A judas is a square iron lattice ... all
have an iron flap inside to keep inquisitive eyes from prying into
the house and yard.—Ibid. xxxv. 522. This contrivance which is
known to the political prisoners as the judas enables the guard to
look into the cell at any time without attracting the attention of
the occupant.
Jude, subs. Common.—(A harlot).
1886. W. E. Henley, Villon’s Good-Night. You judes that clobber for
the stramm.
Judische (or Jew’s) compliment, subs. (venery).—Lots of prick (q.v.)
but no money: c.f. Yorkshire compliment.
Judge, subs. (American cadets’).—The most popular with his fellows.
Judge and Jury, subs. phr. (tailors’).—A mock trial, the fines being
paid in beer.
Judy (or Jude), subs. (common).—1. A girl: a woman, especially one of
loose morals: also, a sweetheart. In Anglo-Chinese circles a native
courtezan.
1886. Daily News, 26 July, p. 6, col. 1. One man saying ‘Them ere
Romans was them coves as goes about with a horgan an’ a judy’
(girl).
1888. Runciman, The Chequers, p. 80. I done the best as I knew for
you, and there ain’t a bloke around as has a judy.
2. (common).—A simpleton; a fool: to make a judy of oneself = to play
the fool; to act the giddy goat (q.v.) or saucy kipper (q.v.).
1824. Atlantic Magazine, i, 346. Not are ye laughin’ at, ye judies.
1854. Punch, i, p. 208, col. 2. Making a judy of herself.
b. 1877. Boston Chronotype, (quoted by bartlett). It is thought
that a set of men never did make greater judies of themselves.
Juff, subs. (old).—1. The cheek; 2. The posteriors.
Jug, subs. (old).—1. A prison: also more frequently stone-jug (q.v.).
For synonyms see Cage. Fr. la boite aux cailloux; Sp. tristura. [Skeat:
Fr. joug = a yoke. The Eng. jug, a cant term for a prison (also called
jocosely a stone-jug) is the same word].
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, iii. v. And thus was I bowled out at
last And into the jug for a lag was cast.
1835. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, p. 157. That’s better than the
stone-jug anyhow; the mill’s a deal better than the Sessions.
1837. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xlii. He shall be kept in the
stone-jug, Charlie, like a gentleman.
1839. Thackeray, Catherine, i. We intend to take a few more pages
from the Old Bailey Calendar to bless the public with one more
draught from the stone jug.
1842. Punch, ii, 188. ‘Cut like bricks, and bilk the jug,’ he cried
in one of those speeches which bother the French authors so much
when they try to translate our works.
1852. Judson, Mysteries of New-York, x. ‘What is that place?’ ‘It’s
the jug sir,’ responded Frank—‘the Tombs, I meant, sir.’
1867. Punch, xxxii, 49. This stone jug at which flats dare to rail.
1870. All the Year Round, 5 Mar. ‘Bygone Cant’. In a box of the
stone-jug I was born, aye, And by a tightened jugular I shall die.
1871. Chambers’ Journal, 9 Dec. p. 771. They are no worse than the
swells in the City who rob right and left, and never get in the jug
for it.
1884. R. E. Francillon, Ropes of Sand, xxi. I’ve not been under a
roof but the jug’s since somewhere in old Horneds’s time.
1888. Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, xxii. It was no use sending
it to you, old man, while you was in the jug.
1889. Modern Society, 16 Feb., p. 305. I got three months in the
jug for fortune-telling.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, 58. As for O’Brien and his britches,
I’d keep all sech jossers in jug.
1895. C. Whibley, in New Review, May, p. 570. For thirty years his
squat, stout figure was amiably familiar to all such as enjoyed the
Liberties of the jug.
2. (American thieves’).—A bank: a broken jugged one = a note from a
broken bank. Hence, also, Jug-breaking = burglary at a bank.
1862. Cornhill Mag., vi. 648. It’s all in single pennifs on the
England jug.