Jack Nasty

noun — 2 senses

Jack Nasty

noun

1

Dated A valet or pageboy.

Tom and his younger brothers, as they grew up, went on playing with the village boys, without the idea of equality or inequality […] ever entering their heads; as it doesn't till it's put there by Jack Nastys or fine ladies' maids.1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:

2

Dated A contemptible or unpleasant person.

Don't lie, don't try to fool me, Ennis. I know what it means. Jack Twist? Jack Nasty.1997, Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain, page 35:

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