jacky
See also: Jacky
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæki/
- Homophone: Jackie
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Noun
jacky (plural jackies)
- (slang, derogatory) A sailor.
- 1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time
- Up and down that street on a bright Saturday afternoon may be seen our Middle Western jackies chumming with the British sailors and Tommies, or flirting with the Irish girls, or gazing through the little panes of the show-windows […]
- 1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time
- (UK, dialect, archaic) English gin.
- 1878, W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore
- I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.
- 1878, W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore
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