jacky

noun — 3 senses

jacky

nounalso spelled Jacky

/ˈd͡ʒæki/

1

Derogatory, Slang A sailor.

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:

2

UK, Archaic, Dialectal English gin.

I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:

Derived terms: jacky dragon, jacky winter, jacky-winter

Jacky

noun

Etymology From Jack + -y.

1

Australia, Ethnic, Offensive, Slur An Aboriginal.

Synonyms: abo, boong

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