jockey
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English Jackin
Middle English Jankyn
English Jack
English Jock
English jock
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English -ey
English jockey
The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
Base: jock
Affixes: -ey
Inflected forms:
form: jockeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jockeys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jockeying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jockeyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jockeyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who rides racehorses competitively.
pos: noun
gloss: That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
pos: noun
gloss: An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
gloss: A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.
gloss: A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A prostitute's client.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A rapist.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
slang
gloss: To ride (a horse) in a race.
pos: verb
gloss: To jostle by riding against.
pos: verb
examples: They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.
gloss: To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.
pos: verb
examples: They're all jockeying for promotion.
This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about.
gloss: To cheat or trick.
pos: verb
examples: I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.
Derived words: bench jockey
bet the jockey, not the horse
bike jockey strap
booze jockey
broadcast jockey
camel jockey
camel-jockey
chicken jockey
desk jockey
disc jockey
disk jockey
gas jockey
gin jockey
Horse and Jockey
horse-jockey
jet jockey
jock
jockette
jockey box
jockey briefs
jockeydom
jockeyism
jockeyless
jockeylike
jockey pants
jockey pump
jockeyship
jockey shorts
jockey squat
jockey strap
jockey valve
jump jockey
knob jockey
knob-jockey
lawn jockey
light jockey
nob jockey
outjockey
plough jockey
plow jockey
pump jockey
radio jockey
robot jockey
sausage jockey
slot jockey
suicide jockey
swab jockey
talk jockey
throttle jockey
video jockey
yard jockey
jockey for position
jockeying
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