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 Julius Cæsar, subs. phr. (venery). The penis. For synonyms see Creamstick and Prick.

Dead as Julius Cæsar, phr. (old).—Dead past doubting.

Jumbaree, subs. (theatrical).—Jewellery.

Jumbo, subs. (old).—A clumsy, unwieldly fellow.—Bee (1823).

Jumble, verb. (old).—To copulate. For synonyms see Greens and Ride. Also to do a jumble-giblets, or a jumble-up.

1582. Stanyhurst, Virgil his Aeneis (Arber, 1880), iv. 100. Dick and thee Troian captayns doe jumble in one den.

1595. Barnfield, Poems (Arber, 1882), 40. Both they jumble in one bed.

1618. Field, Amends for Ladies, iv. 2. I would have so jumbled her honesty.

1651. Randolph, Hey for Honesty, iii. 3. The wenches will tumble and merrily jumble.

1687. Brome, The Queen's Exchange, in Wks. (1875), iii. 535. The dairy maid and he were jumbling of A posset together.

1719. Durfey, Pills &c., iv. 100. We jumble our lasses upon the grass.

Jumble-gut-lane, subs. phr. (old).—A bad or rough road.—B.E. (1690); Grose (1785).

Jumbler, subs. (old). A fuckster or fuckstress (q.v.)

1618. Field, Amends for Ladies, ii. 1. She has been as sound a jumbler as ever paid for it.

Jumbuck, subs. (Australian).—A sheep. For synonyms see Woolly-bird.

1851. Chambers' Journal, xv. 317. Mind you look out well after the men as well as the jumbucks.

1889. Pall Mall Gazette, Feb. The process by which the jumbucks are shorn.

Jumm, verb. (venery).—To copulate.—(Urquhart). For synonyms see Greens and Ride.

Jummix, verb. (American).—To jumble up; to mix together: a portmanteau word (q.v.)

Jump, subs. (old).—1. A form of robbery. See Jilt, verb.

1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Jump. Robbery effected by ascending a ladder placed by a sham lamplighter against the house intended to be robbed. It is so called because, should the lamplighter be put to flight, the thief who ascended the ladder has no means of escaping but that of jumping down.

2. (thieves').—A window: cf. Back jump.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.

3. (in pl.).—(1) the fidgets; (2) delirium tremens.

1879. Payn, High Spirits (Capt. Cole's Passenger). I though he had been drinking, and in fact was on the verge of the jumps.

1889. Daily Telegraph, 7 Sep., 5, 3. Only suffering from an attack of the jumps.

4. (old).—Loose raiment. See Jumper, sense 4.

1752. Foote, Taste (ed. 1781), p. v. Don't mind my shape this bout, for I'm only in jumps.

Verb. (old).—1. To seize upon, whether forcibly or by stealth; to cheat; to supplant: e.g. to jump a man = to pounce upon and rob or maltreat; to jump A house = to rob it; to jump a claim = to take possession of a mining right in the absence of an owner. Fr. farguer à la dure.