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Jockey

is a little Jack (boy). So in Scotch, “Ilka Jeanie has her Jockie.” (See Jack.)

All fellows, Jockey and the laird (man and master). (Scotch proverb.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Job’s Pound
Job (o short)
Job (o short)
Job Lot (A)
Jobs
Job (To)
Jobation
Jobber
Jobbing Carpenter
Jocelin de Brakelonda
Jockey
Jockey (To)
Jockey of Norfolk
Joe or a Joe Miller
Joey
Jog
Jog-trot
Joggis or Jogges
John
John-a-Dreams
John-a-Droynes

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