JJabba the Hutt; Jabber the Huttverbto shut [uk]< Jabba the Hutt, a character from the Star Wars films.· – CRS(co.uk), 7th May 2002· [T]he Lollipop is Jabba the Hutt[.] – answers.yahoo.com, 16th February 2007· [O]i theres nothing wrong with east london or the way we talk, so Jabba the Hutt your north and south, and go on up the old Dancing Bears[.] – The Student Room fo-rum, 13th July 2007· Bloody Jabber the Hutt your north & south and listen. – blog.theoddballenglish.com, blog, 31st January 2012jaborgenouncriminal work [uk]An alteration of george, the short version of George Raft, rhyming on graft. Formed on the principle of backslang, but with some ad hoc modifications due to the peculiar orthographic and phonetic form of the original disguised word.· ‘So. That jaborge...’ Here we go again with the back slang. Honestly. These southenders think they’re in their own secret garden talking in tongues that no outsider could ever begin to comprehend. They make me laugh. – K. Sampson, The Killing Pool, p.64, 2013Jacknounlemon [uk]Pseudo-rhyming slang punning on the homophones lemon and Lemmon. < American actor Jack Lemmon (1925–2001).· – CPFC BBS forum, 15th April 2007· Order this in the pub (it’s one drink): Vera, Phil, Vincent and Jack. – CPFC BBS forum, 2nd June 2009Jacknoun 1 a member of the Permanent and Casual Waterside Workers’ Union [australia]A shortening of Jack McNab. The Permanent and Cas-ual Waterside Workers’ Union was originally a strike-breaking body.· An air of strained expectancy pervades the great bleak shed. In the outer divisions–‘Jacks’, ‘Seconds’, ‘Un-attached’, ‘Blanks’–the bell is hardly heard over the babel of four thousand voices, the shuffle of eight thou-sand feet. – W.S. Ramson, AND, 1988: J. Morrison, Sailors Belong Ships, p.29, 1947· On the Melbourne waterfront in the 1930s, men as-sembled in the “Compound” – a huge galvanized-iron shed with a concrete floor – waiting for work. The Com-pound was divided into four parts – one for members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation (WWF), one for the “Jacks,” one for “Second Preference” men, and one for the “Blanks.” [...] Jobs were allocated first to the Federa-tion men and the Jacks, in a ratio of 60:40, before any work was offered to Seconds and finally the Blanks. – P. Turnbull, Port Labor, p.520, 2012 2 in pre-decimal currency, a sixpenny coin [australia]A slang rhyme on zack or, perhaps, a shortening of Jill and Jack.· – S.J. Baker, The Australian Language, p.115, 1966Jack-a-dandy; Jack Dandy; Jack the Dandy; Jack me dandy; Jack and Dandy; jacknounbrandy [uk/us/australia]In British usage, recorded in the forms Jack-a-dandy, Jack Dandy, Jack the Dandy, Jack me dandy and jack. In American and Australian English, recorded in the forms Jack Dandy and Jack and Dandy respectively.· I will quit the Jack-a-dandy. – J. Green, GDoS, 2010: F.F. Cooper, Elbow-Shakers! I, iv, 1828· JACK-DANDY, n. Brandy. – D. Anglicus, VT, 1857· JACK DANDY, brandy. – J.C. Hotten, SD1, 1859· To illustrate the three systems the common liquors are shown as they appear respectively in Kacab Genals, Ang-sla and Slap Bang, thus: Brandy–Ydnary, andy-bra, Jack the Dandy. – St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St Louis, MO, ‘Lon-don Slang’, 15th June 1893· In the same way no master of the language would ever give brandy or gin their primitive names, “Jack the dan-dy” or “Brian O’Lynn.” The one is always referred to as “Jack,” the other as “Brian.” – The Times, London, 29th July 1894· Jack-a-dandy, [...] (rhyming). Brandy. – J.S. Farmer and W.E. Henley, SA, 1896· [H]e was having a “Jack and Rosie,” and off it went. [...] “Jack-the-Dandy” (brandy), “Rosie Loader” (soda). – Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland, 3rd August 1910· Brandy ... Jack the Dandy. – I. Phillips, DoRS, 1931· Jack Dandy, brandy. – A.J. Pollock, US, 1935· A couple had just retired for the night when wifey said she felt ill and asked her spouse to go to the rubbadub for a deaner’s worth of brandy. [...] With the Jack-and-Dandy he recived 19/ change. – The Western Argus, Kal-goorlie, Western Australia, 6th July 1937· JACK DANDY. Brandy. – D.W. Maurer, Rhyming Argot, p.193, 1944· My trouble and strife came the top of Rome elephant’s trunk from too much jack dandy. – D.T. Moore and M. Waller, Cloak and Cipher, p.181, 1962· Jack me dandy = brandy. – L.M. Blumberg, Rhyming Slang, p.97, 1968https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110535525-010
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