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 Jacksy-pardy, subs. (common).—The posteriors: also jacksy pardo. For synonyms see Monocular eyeglass.

Jack Tar, subs. phr. (old).—1. A sailor; and (2) a hornpipe.

1781. G. Parker, View of Society, i. 53. Our house in this place was chiefly supported by jack tars.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.

1822. Lamb, Elia (Some old Actors). Displays before our eyes a downrignt concretion of a Wapping sailor—a jolly warm-hearted jack tar.

Jack Weight, subs. phr. (old).—A fat man; a forty-guts (q.v.).

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.

Jack-Whore, subs. phr. (old).—A large, masculine, overgrown wench.—Grose (1785).

Jacob, subs. (old).—1. See quot.

1753. The Thief-Catcher, p. 25. There are another sort of Rogues called jacobs; these go with ladders in the Dead of the Night, and get in at the windows, one, two or three pair, of stairs and sometimes down the area.

2. (Old Cant.)—A ladder.

1714. Memoirs of John Hall (4th ed.), p. 12, s.v.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Jacob to prig the jacob from the dunckin-drag.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.

3. (old).—A soft fellow; a spooney; a fool.—Grose (1785); De Vaux (1819).

4. (venery).—The penis: cf. Jacob's Ladder sense 2.

Jacobite, subs. (old).—A sham shirt; a dickey (q.v.); a shirt-collar.—B. E. (1690), Grose (1785), Matsell (1859).

Jacob's Ladder, subs. phr. (originally theatrical: now general).—1. A longitudinal flaw in the leg of a pair of tights; now applied to any rent of which only the woof threads are left.

1859. Sala, Gaslight and Daylight, xxx. Here he [a tramp] sat down on a milestone; and producing a remarkably neat housewife case, proceeded to overhaul all parts of his apparel with as much care and circumspection as if they had been of purple and fine linen, catching up any strong rents and jacob's ladders with a grave and deliberate countenance.

2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms see Monosyllable.

Jade, subs. (old).—1. An epithet applied to women: in contempt. [Originally a horse or man (Chaucer): especially (1) one over-*ridden or foundered; and (2) unsafe and full of tricks. Hence, by implication, a knavish, battered, or worn-out whore]. Jadish, adj. (Nashe) = malicious; tricky; untrustworthy.

1560. Nice Wanton [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 172]. Iniquity. Gup, whore; do ye hear this jade?

1592. Breton, Pilgrimage to Paradise, p. 10. Earthly joys will make him prove a jade.

1607. Wilkins, Enforced Marriage [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ix. 550]. Whore, ay, and jade.

1611. Barry, Ram Alley, iv. Does the filthy jade send to me for money?

1614. Cook, City Gallant [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), xi. 226]. She's good for nothing then, no more than a jade.