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Jamaican; Dictionary of Jamaican English
accoutrements n pl • [..cf DJE kruchument..]
advantage v • [Cf DJE advantage in same sense]
again adv B1 • [Cf DJE again 1..]
alligator apple n • [..DJE 1756➝]
alligator pear n • [DJE 1696➝]
and them conj phr • [Cf DJE an’ dem]
apple banana n • [..cf DJE]
assen around v phr • [..cf DJE fishening, icening..]
back back v phr • Cf DJE
backways adv • Cf DJE
banjo n • For hist development and addit spp see..DJE
bean day n 1 • Cf DJE Banian Day
beard n B2 • [..cf DJE corn-mouth]
before-day n • Cf DJE (MAP)
be-shame’ bush n • [..cf..DJE shamer]
big-eye adj 1 • Cf DJE
blow v2 • Cf DJE
blue hole n • Cf DJE
boo boo n1 • [..cf DJE bubu]
brinjer n 2 • [Cf DJE brinjah]
broadus n • [..= Caribbean creole braata (see DJE)..]
buck v4 • Cf..DJE buck 5
buckra n • [..cf DJE backra 1688➝]
bumba n • [Cf DJE bumbo the buttocks]
bungo n • Cf DJE bungay
buzzard-blow-’e-nose n • Cf DJE John-Crow (Blow-) Nose
by conj • [Cf DJE by conj 2]
cala n1 • Cf DJE ackra
caouane n • [..Cf..DJE kaiwaama]
catch v B13 • Cf DJE catch 7
caterpillar n B2 • [..cf DJE]
chill-grass n • [..cf DJE fever grass]
chizzywink n • [..cf..DJE merrywing mosquito..]
choice v B • Cf DJE
chunky pipe n • Cf DJE junka(-pipe)
chupid adj • Cf DJE
church mother n • Cf DJE mother
cloy v • Cf DJE cly
clucking hen n 2 • [DJE 1679➝]
cocktail n • [..see also DJE cock-crow]
coonah n • [..cf DJE John Canoe..]
corn n B5 • Note: also in Caribbean; see DJE
crazy ant n • Cf DJE mad-ants
crocus sack n • Cf..DJE (MAP)
cubbitch adj • [From covetous; DJE 1862➝]
cubbitch adj 2 • [Cf DJE cubbitch-hole..]
cuffy n • Cf DJE
cut-eye n, v • [..Cf..Jamaican..cut-eye..]
dash away v phr • [..cf DJE dash vb 1 “In common use in Jamaica..”]
day clean n • Cf DJE
day-day intj, n • Cf DJE
de-de phr • [..cf..DJE de3, di-de]
deh adv • [..cf DJE de1]
dirt-eater n 1 • Cf DJE, DBE dirt-eating
do v C7 • Cf..DJE do v2 l
doctor shop n • Cf DJE, DBE
dog snapper n • Cf DJE dog-teeth snapper
duckinmallard n • [..cf DJE dokantiil]
duh prep • Cf DJE da2
duh v • Cf DJE da3,4,5, de3,4
duppy n • Cf DJE, DBE
eh-eh intj • Cf DJE e-e
essence n 2 • Cf DJE balm oil, oil of —
exodus oil n • Cf DJE oil of _______
exwantidge n • Cf DJE egvaantij
falling palate n • Cf DJE come down
fe intj • [Twi f a challenge to fight; cf DJE fe]
fire v C9 • [DJE 1828➝]
flash v 1 • Cf DJE
flower fence n • Cf DJE
follow-me-boy oil n • Cf DJE oil of —
foo-foo n1 • Cf DJE, DBE
foot n C2 • Cf DJE
for prep B2 • [..cf DJE fi3, DBE for.]
friend n 1 • Cf DJE
friend with v phr • Cf DJE friend v
fuh v • [Prob Afr..; cf DJE fi particle introd infin3 2]
full v 2 • [EDD 1641➝; DJE 1797➝]
gallop v • (cf Jamaican creole interpretation of develop as devel up..)
gaulding n • Cf DJE gaulin
God’s adj • Cf DJE God
goomer v • [..cf DJE guma the plant Solanum nigrum, used in root medicine]
grainkind n • Cf DJE breadkind
ground dove n • [DJE 1679➝]
grunt n 1 • [..DJE 1679➝]
guma n2 • Cf DJE
hamlet n • [..cf DJE]
hear v A1b • [Cf.. DJE yerry]
heety-hoty tree n • Cf DJE iitiuoti
hicatee n • [DJE 1698-1873]
hi-yi exclam3 • [Cf DJE aye]
hog crawl n • Cf DJE pig crawl
hog gum n • [..DJE a1726➝..]
hoodoo n 1e • [Cf DJE hootiah sb dial..]
horsebean n 4 • [DJE 1696➝]
hungry n B • [Cf DJE, DBE]
hurt v • [..cf also DJE hat1]
icening n • [..cf..DBE, DJE]
inkberry n 3 • [DJE 1864 ➝]
jawbone n 1 • Cf DJE 1837 ➝, DBE
Jerusalem thorn n • [DJE 1756 ➝]
jester n • [..cf..DJE digester, jesta]
John Canoe n • [..cf DJE, 1774 ➝..]
john crow n • [DJE 1826 ➝]
John Mariggle n 1 • [DJE 1892 ➝]
joog v • [Prob of Afr origin (cf DJE juk, DBE jook)..]
juba n • [Perh Afr; cf DJE Juba..]
Junefish n • [DJE 1873 ➝]
junky adj • Cf DNE, DJE, SND
ki intj • Cf DJE
lab one’s mouth v phr • [..cf also DJE laba, labrish to chatter]
lick v B1 • Cf DJE
little more and(, a) adv phr • [Cf DJE quot 1839 at little most..]
locustberry n • [DJE 1727 ➝ for Byrsonima coriacea]
long mouth n • Cf DJE long out one’s mouth (at long out)
lukkuh prep, conj • [..cf DJE A8..and laka]
make v1 D21 • Cf DJE mikies
malawu n • Cf DJE
man n C2 • [..cf DJE..]
mangrow n • [..DJE mangrow]
mannersable adj • Cf DJE
mannersly adj • Cf..DJE
mannish adj • Cf DJE
margaret grunt n • [..DJE 1892 ➝]
maringouin n • Cf DJE merrywing
me adj a • [Cf DBE, DJE]
nana n2 • Cf DJE
nyam v • [..cf DBE, DJE]
old joe n • [Cf DJE old Joe the pelican]
old-man’s-beard n 1 • [DJE 1696 ➝]
one adv C1 • Cf DJE
one indef art D • Cf DBE, DJE
one-one adv, adj, n • Cf DBE, DJE
onetime adv • Cf DJE, DBE
out v C3 • Cf..DJE (MAP)
overlook v • Cf DJE overlook vb2
oyster crab n • [DJE 1756 for Pinnotheres geddesi]
oyster plant n 3 • [DJE 1811 ➝]
pigeon pea n 1 • [DJE 1696 ➝]
pine n 2 • [DJE 1657 ➝]
piramidig n • [DJE 1847]
rain seed n • Cf..DJE
red pea n • [DJE 1727 ➝]
say conj • [From any of several W Afr languages;..cf DBE say, DJE se]
shame brier n • DJE shamer
shoo-shoo v • [Cf DJE susu “To..speak ill.”]
snowball n 7 • Cf.. DJE snowball
soon adj 2 • Cf DJE suun-man
suck-teeth n • [Cf DJE, DCEU]
too adv • Cf DJE
ugly adj, adv, n • Cf DBE (at ogly), DJE
ugly n D1a • [This proverb appears to be widespread in the Caribbean: cf DCEU, DJE (1803 ➝).]
una pron • [W Afr; cf Igbo unu you (pl); cf also DJE unu, DBE ona]
what make (so) adv phr • Cf DJE wa mek
what side adv phr • Cf DBE, DJE (at what side), DCEU (at wisside)
wild pine n • [DJE 1696 ➝; see quot 1828]
yard child n 1 • [Cf DJE yard-child “A child who lives in the household of its father”]
ae adv • [Haw, prob infl by Engl aye, Japanese hai yes]
alphabet n • [Calque from Japanese or Korean..]
arigato intj • [Japanese]
atsui adj • [Japanese]
bango n • [Japanese bango number]
chi-chi n • [Japanese chichi milk; the breast]
daikon n • [Japanese]
gohan n • [Japanese]
ichiban adj • [Japanese]
kamaboko n • [Japanese kamaboko]
kudzu n • [Japanese kuzu]
mama-san n • [mamma n1 1 + Japanese san worthy]
sashimi n • [Japanese..]
shishi n • [Japanese shishi a child’s word for urine]
skibby n • [Perh Japanese sukebei lewdness..]
sushi n • [Japanese; OED2 1893 ➝]
tabi n • [Japanese]
zori n • [Japanese zori (sg and pl)..]
already adv B2 • chiefly in Jewish and Ger settlement areas
alter kocker n • NYC and other Jewish settlement areas
bialy n • chiefly in Jewish settlement areas
dreck n • urban, chiefly in Jewish and German settlement areas
dreidel n • in Jewish communities
enjoy v B2 • esp in Jewish communities
farblonjet adj • in Jewish communities
faygeleh n • in Jewish communities
flanken n • esp in Jewish communities
holishkes n pl • among speakers of Jewish or Eastern European background
kishke n • esp among speakers of Jewish background
knackwurst n • esp in Ger and Jewish settlement areas
krex v • esp in Ger, PaGer, and Jewish settlement areas
kvetch v • esp in Jewish settlement areas
latke n • chiefly in Jewish settlement areas
take v B6 • esp freq among Jewish speakers
jocular; jocularly; jocose; joking; also humorous; humorously
absotoot(e)ly adv • humorous
absquatulate v • formerly widespread, now old-fash; joc
acknowledge the corn v phr • old-fash, joc
Adam n 2 • In humorous phrr
Adam’s ale n • joc
adz v • humorous
African dominoes n pl • joc
African golf n • joc
afternoon farmer n • joc
agitate up a storm v phr • joc
agreeable adj A • ?joc
agree to disagree v phr 2 • esp freq among women, joc
agropelter n • joc
ainna interrog exclam • somewhat old-fash, occas joc
air, go by v phr • joc
air hook n • joc
airjammer n • joc
Alabama wool n • joc
Alaska turkey n • joc
Albany beef n • joc; now hist
alfalfa n B1 • joc
alfalfa n B2 • joc
alibi day n • joc
all-and-all n • joc
allee samee adv phr • joc
alley apple n • joc
alligator n1 B7 • used as a humorous nickname.
alphabet slinger n • joc
ambleshoot n • joc
ambulance n (pronc) • occas, perh for humorous effect, metath |ˈæmbliən(t)s, –æn(t)s|, or syncopated
|ˈæm(b)lɪns, -əns|
Amish golf n • joc
animule n • joc
anchor (and chain) n • joc
anchor brand strawberry n • joc
anchored adj • joc
angeliferous adj • [angel + iferous humorous adj-forming suff popular in 19th cent..]
animal n (pronc) • often humorously |ˈænəˌmaɪl, ˈænəˌmjul|
animal car n • joc
anoint v B • joc
antiques and horribles n pl • [Humorous var of ancients and honorables]
ant killers n pl • joc
ape n 2 • joc
ape wagon n • joc
appendix n • joc
apple n 4 • joc
apple-blossom two-step n • joc
apple turnover n • joc
Arab n (pronc) • esp in humorous use and non-std senses, |ˈeɪ̩ræb|
arichtocrat n • joc
Arizona cloudburst n • joc
Arizona nightingale n • joc
Arizona paint job n • joc
Arizona tenor n • joc
ark n 4 • joc
ark n 5 • In humorous phrr alluding to the era of Noah’s ark
Arkansas asphalt n • joc
Arkansas chicken n • joc
Arkansas dew n • joc
Arkansas fire extinguisher n • joc
Arkansas lizard n • joc
Arkansas T-bone n • joc
Arkansas toothpick n • joc
Arkansas traveler n 1 • joc
Arkansas travels n • joc
Arkansas water n • joc
Arkansas wedding cake n • joc
armstrong adj • joc
Armstrong heater n • joc
Arthur’s office n • joc
artillery n 1 • joc
artillery n 2 • joc
ash can n 4 • joc
ash-eater n • joc
asparagus n (pronc) • occas joc
asphalt arab n • humorous or derog
ass deep adj phr • In var humorous phrr
ass-kicker n • joc
Astorbilt n • joc
at prep 4 • informal, occas joc or for emphasis
augerino n • joc
August ham n • joc
Aunt Jane’s room n • joc, euphem
ax-handle n 1 • often joc
ax-handle n 2 • joc
axle-grease n • joc
Aztec two-step n • joc
baby bumpers n pl • joc
baby button n • joc
baby-snatcher n • joc
bachelor’s wife n • ?joc
backdoor trot n • joc
backlog n 2 • joc
back of the lap n • joc or euphem
back porch n • joc
backside of nowhere n • joc
back teeth are floating phr • joc
backwater n 2 • joc
backwoodser n • often joc
backwoods jockey n • joc
badger n 4 • joc
baggy n • joc
bald-headed row n • joc
bale of hay n 2 • joc
ballast n 2 • joc
balsam steak n • joc
bapsouse v • joc
barber-pole paint n • joc
bar-dog n • joc
barge n 4 • joc
barking dogs n pl • joc
barleycorn sprints n • joc
barn boss n 2 • joc
barn door n 2b • joc
barnyard golf n • joc
barnyard salad n • joc
bass-ackward(s) adv, adj • esp among men; joc or euphem
bayao n 2 • joc, but sometimes taken as derog
bazoo n 1 • joc or derog
beefsteak n 3 • [Prob joc alter of mistake]
beeswax n 1 • [Joc alter of business]
belly pad n • joc
belly robber n • joc
berumpus n • joc
besetter n • joc
birch n • euphem, joc
bird dog n • [Perh joc alter of buttock]
bird tongue n • joc
biscuit n B2 • joc
biscuit n B7 • joc
biscuit getter n • joc
biscuit hooks n pl • joc
biter n 2 • joc
bitter half n • joc
blab n 1 • joc, sometimes derog
blabberskite n • joc, sometimes derog
blab-fest n • joc
blackassed pea n • joc
blade n 4 • joc
blanket n 3 • joc
blanket n 4 • joc
block and tackle n • joc
blood medicine n • joc
blow Z’s v phr • joc
blue room n • joc
blunderbus n • joc
boarding house n • joc
bogtrotter n 3 • joc, sometimes derog
bohunkus n 1 • joc, euphem
boiled owl n • humorous
boil pricker n • joc
bombazine n • joc
bombosity n • joc
bonaparte n 2 • joc
bone n 2 • joc
bone n 3 • joc
bone orchard n • humorous
boocoodles n • joc
boo-dock n • joc euphem
boody n 2 • joc
boot hill n • joc
boot hill two-step n • joc
Borden’s and Elsie’s n pl • joc
bore for the simples v phr • joc
Boston dollar n • joc
Boston screwdriver n • joc
bottom v 2 • joc
bowling alley n • joc
box, off one’s adj phr • joc, sometimes derog
box with five nails n • joc
boy n 3 • joc
brain box n • joc
bread cutter n • joc
bread hooks n pl • joc
brogan n 2 • joc
B.T.M. n • joc
bubblegum machine n • joc
bubble gun n • joc
bug n1 8 • used in jocular place-names
bull fuck n • joc
bull’s breakfast n • joc
bumberella n • [Humorous alter of umbrella]
bung cloth n • joc
burg n • sometimes humorous or disparaging (MAP)
burn v B6 • among Black speakers; joc
burn one’s foot v phr • joc
bury patch n • joc
bush bacon n • joc
bushwhack v 5 • joc
butter bean n 3 • joc
buttinsky n 2 • joc
buttonhole n • joc
buy a piece of the ground v phr • joc
cabbage n B4 • Used in jocular or derisive nicknames for German settlement areas
cackleberry n • humorous
cacklebird n • humorous
calaboose n • informal, often humorous (MAP)
calf-slobber(s) n • joc
California blanket n • joc
California peacock n • joc
California prayer book n • joc
camp inspector n • joc
canal boat n • joc (MAP)
can’t-help-it n • joc
Cape Ann turkey n • joc
Cape Cod clergyman n • joc ?obs
Cape Cod protection n • joc obs
Cape Cod turkey n • joc
capon egg n • joc
captain n B2 • An unofficial title of respect, sometimes used humorously or ironically
carcass n • joc
Carolina racehorse n • joc
cat beer n • humorous
cat-gut scraper n • joc
cemetery n • joc forms cement-tary, cement tree
chambermaid n 1 • joc
cherry picker n 1 • joc
chicken-eater n 2 • esp among Black speakers; humorous
chic sale(s) n • somewhat old-fash, joc (MAP)
china n B2 • joc
Chinese grits n • joc
choke a horse v phr • joc
choker hole n 2 • joc
chomper n 2 • humorous
chop suey n • humorous
chop wood v phr 1 • joc
Christmas tree n 1 • joc
chuck-wagon chicken n • joc
Cincinnati n B1 • joc
city jake n • [Joc alter of country jake..]
city squash n • joc
clam digger n 2 • joc
clam gun n • joc
clickers n pl • joc
clipper n 4 • joc
coal-scuttle blond n • joc
coals, rake up the v phr • joc
cob n2 4d • joc
cob-floater n • joc
cockroach killer n • joc
codger n 5 • joc
coffee-strainer n • joc
coffin varnish n • joc
cold shut n 2 • joc
collar and hames n • joc
college n B2 • joc
colonel n B1 • Used as an unofficial title of respect, sometimes applied joc
Colorado mockingbird n • joc
Columbia River turkey n • joc
coming-out pants n • [In humorous ref to coming-out a social debut]
compressed hay n • joc
conflab n 2 • sometimes joc
conk n1 1 • joc
conk n1 2 • joc
Connecticut mile n • joc
Connecticut River pork n • joc
constabule n • joc
cookie n1 3 • joc, euphem (MAP)
cookie pusher n • joc
cook turnips v phr • joc
coonass pistol n • joc
cooter n 6 • joc
cootie cage n • joc
cootie garage n • joc
cordwood n • joc
cork-legged limited n • joc
corn bread consumption n • joc
corn sheller n • joc
corporosity n • joc, old-fash
cougar den n • joc
cougar milk n • joc
county hotel n • joc
courting apple n • joc
cousin n 2 • joc
cove juice n • joc
cover the waterfront v phr 2 • joc
cowboy pen n • joc
cow grease n • joc
cow-kicked, I’ll be exclam • often joc
cow’s husband n • euphem or joc
crack corn v phr • joc
cranberry pusher n • joc
crawling company n • joc
crescent n • joc
crib n1 3 • joc
crimson rambler n • joc
critter n B3 • jocose
crossbar hotel n • joc
crowbar hotel n • joc
crow’s nest n 6 • joc
crumb crusher n • esp among Black speakers; joc
crumb snatcher n 2 • joc
Cuban itch n • joc
curbstone-setter n • joc
cushion n B2 • joc
cut cabbage v phr • [Humorous substitute for cut capers]
cut the alkali in one’s drinking water v phr • joc
dance in the hog trough v phr • often used as a joc threat
d.d.t.’s n pl • [Joc var of d.t.’s delirium tremens]
death stick n • joc
decorate the pot v phr • joc
deep sea turkey n • joc
dental box n • joc
dentals n pl • joc
Derryfield beef n • joc
desert canary n • [In joc allusion to its loud bray]
diaper dragon n • joc
diasticutis n • joc
diffucalty n • joc
digger n 3 • joc
dike jumper n • joc
dingbat n 3 • usu joc
dingmaul n • appar from its use in joc threats
dining-room lumber n • joc
dinners n pl • euphem, joc
discombobulate v • joc
discombobulation n • joc
discomgollifusticated ppl adj • [Pseudo-Lat humorous formation]
discumgalligumfricated ppl adj • [Pseudo-Lat humorous formation]
dishwater diarrhea n • joc, old-fash
distracted ppl adj 1 • joc
dive bomber n • joc
Dixie bacon n • joc
dog bones n pl • joc
dogcatcher n 2 • joc
doghouse n 7 • joc
dog nut n • joc
dog’s egg n • joc
dog turd n • joc
doily n B2 • joc
do-it fluid n • joc
dollhouse n • joc
dome n 2 • joc
donkey dust n • joc
do-not n • joc
dooley n 2 • joc
doorknob n • joc
do-right boy n • joc
double and twist v phr 1 • [Joc extension of double v 4a]
double-eyes n pl • joc
double guts n • joc
dough beater n • joc
down cellar adv phr b • Used in joc evasive expressions
dressed up like a sore thumb adj phr • joc
drillmaster n • joc
dropsy n1 • joc
dry clean Methodist n • [Joc ref to the method of baptism]
Dutch milk n • joc
Dutch nightingale n • joc
ears lowered, get one’s v phr • joc
earth juice n • joc
earth mover n • joc
Easter egg n • joc
Easter lily n 5 • joc
educate v Bc • In facetious and humorous combs
eh interrog exclam • often joc (MAP)
eight-dollar bill n • joc
elbow bending n • joc
elbow grease n • joc
el cabbagio n • joc
elephant n 2 • joc
elephant teeth n pl • joc
el ropo n • joc
el stinko n • joc
endgate n 2 • joc
end of nowhere(s) n • joc
engine tamer n • joc
English n 1 • joc
English monkey n • [Prob humorous var of Welsh rabbit]
epizeema n • joc
epsom salts n • joc
-eroo suff • joc
erysipelas n B • joc
essence peddler n • joc
Ethiopian paradise n • [Joc alter of nigger heaven]
ex- pref • Used to form joc or fanciful vogue-words
exalted ppl adj B • joc
exflunct v • [A humorously extravagant quasi-Latin elaboration of flunk to fail]
extract of hammer handle n • joc
face hurts, one’s phr • joc
fade v 2 • joc, euphem
fall off the roof v phr • joc, euphem
fall out of one’s cradle v phr • Used in joc phrr
fatal step, take the v phr • joc
feather bed n 6 • joc
feel good v phr • joc, euphem
fence post n 1 • joc
fence post n 2 • joc
Ferdinand n • joc or euphem
fiancé n • joc varr finance, financy
fiddle case n • joc
fifth wheel n • joc
filibuster n • joc
filly n 2 • joc, euphem
fire insurance Christian n • joc
first reader n • joc
fish-eater n • derog or joc (MAP)
fish for love v phr • joc
fishing weed n • joc
five-toed shoe n • joc
flat n1 1e • Used as a joc or derog nickname for a town or district
fleabag n 1 • joc or derog
floating kidney n • [Joc application of the term for a displaced kidney..]
floozy n2 • [Prob joc deriv of influenza]
flophouse n 2 • joc
flu-flux n • joc
flying disk n • joc
flytrap n 10 • joc
folderino n • [Perh joc var of folderol]
food choppers n pl • joc
foot burner n • joc
foot evil n 2 • joc
footmobile n • joc
forgettery n • joc
forty-eleven adj • joc
foundation n 1 • joc
fragrant adj • joc, euphem
free gratis adv phr • joc
free hotel n • joc
French dry clean v phr, n • joc
Frenchman from Cork n • joc
fried chicken n • joc
frog spayer n • joc
fruit n 3 • ?joc
funeral clothes n pl • joc
fur piece n1 • joc
gab n1 • joc (MAP)
galloping dandruff n • joc or euphem
galloping goose n • joc
gap n1 4 • joc
gap n1 6 • joc
gap-and-swallow n • joc
gape n C1 • [.. prob in joc allusion..]
gaposis n • joc
gapseed n • In joc phrr
garage door is open phr • joc
garbage collector n • joc
gate-lifter n • joc
gatling gun n • [By joc ext from Gatling gun..]
geese poomples n pl • joc
gelding tobacco n • joc
Georgia ham n • joc
Georgia ice cream n • joc
Georgia major n • joc or derog
German goiter n • joc
get-along n • joc
get oneself a cook v phr • joc (MAP)
ghost n B1 • joc
goober corn n • joc
gospel bird n • esp among Black speakers; joc
gospel mill n • joc
grabber n 1 • joc
grabhook n 2 • joc
Grand River tuna n • joc
grapevine n 3 • joc
gravestone n • joc
green-apple quickstep n • joc
greeting n • joc
grinding gravel vbl n • joc
gully jumper n 3 • joc
gunboat n 1 • joc
guppy-gobbler n • joc
hag n 2 • used as a joc or opprobrious nickname
half-moon n 1 • joc, euphem
hang v B2 • joc (MAP)
hardly able fever n • joc
hatch v • joc
hatching jacket n • joc
hat rack n 2 • joc
Hawaiian time n • joc or derog
hayburner n 5 • often joc or derog
heifer n 1a • usu disparaging or joc
hell-snorter n • joc
hen berry n • joc
high sheriff n • usu used as a joc or derog nickname
hind leg, hold one’s v phr • joc
hindside of nowhere n • joc
hinge-jaw n • joc
hippocanarious adj • joc
hit a knot v phr • joc
Hoboken n 1 • joc or derog
hog feed n • often joc or derog
hog herd n • joc
hombre n B2 • occas joc
honeycat n • joc
honker n1 3 • joc
hootamaganzy n • [Joc var of hooded merganser]
horned jackrabbit n • joc
horned rabbit n • joc
hound dog n 2 • usu derog or joc (MAP)
house kitty n • joc
how be you exclam • old-fash, sometimes joc
huckleberry train n • humorous
I-all pron • joc
Idaho rain n • joc
in flew endways n • [Joc varr of influenza]
infoxicated adj • [Joc var of intoxicated, infl by fox v 1]
IQ n • joc
Irish apple n • joc
Irish banjo n • joc
Irish nightingale n • joc
Irish plum n 2 • joc
Irish turkey n • joc
Irish wash n • joc
-itis suff • usu joc
jackpine savage n • joc or derog
jassack n • hence joc jass-ass, jass-onkey
jawbreaker n 1 • joc
jerk v1 C4 • joc
jerkwater adj 1 • joc or derog (MAP)
Jesus H. Christ n • [Prob joc interpretation of IHC, var of IHS, monogram for Jesus]
jimmy cane n • [Prob joc var of hurricane..]
john n 4 • in var combs as a joking word for one’s signature
jump off the deep end v phr • joc
jump the bucket v phr • joc
junker n • usu joc (MAP)
key n 1 • joc
kinnery n • sometimes joc
knowledge bump n • joc
kyoodle n • derog or joc
lady’s monthly journal n • joc, euphem
lap organ n 2 • joc
lassengers n • joc
last chance n 2 • joc
last chance n 3 • joc
library n B2 • joc
liver pad n • joc
livestock n pl • joc
long-ass butterfly n • joc
Longfellow n • [In joc ref to Amer poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82)]
Lord’s fertilizer n • joc
Lucy Bowles n • joc, euphem (MAP)
lumber n1 2 • joc
lunch hook n • joc
-ma- infix • in “nonsense” words, often with jocular, ironic, or derisive force
Maggie and Jiggs n • joc
Mainiac n • joc
major n 1 • sometimes applied joc or ironically
marble orchard n • joc or euphem
mash frogs v phr • joc
ma’s room n • joc
meat hound n • Used as a derog or joc epithet for a dog
Methodist feet n • joc
Mexican adj B4 • joc or derog
Milwaukee cider n • joc
mitten n • [Prob joc var of mittimus a dismissal..] (MAP)
molar masher n • joc
monkey n1 B6 • [Perh joc var of monthlies..]
Monkey Ward n • joc
Mormon buckskin n • joc or derog
mountain trout n 4 • joc
mow hay v phr • joc
Mr. Astorbilt n • joc
Mrs. Jones n • joc
much o’britches exclam • joc
mud cat n 3 • joc or derog
mud-hen cleaner n • joc
mud hook n • joc
musty adj2 • joc
mutton puncher n • joc
muzzle loader n • joc
Nava-Joe n • [Joc pronc of Navajo]
nervous adj B1 • joc
oakhead n • joc
oatburner n • joc
Old Point Comfort n • joc
one-eyed mabel n • joc
optriculum n • joc
overland trout n • joc
parachute n • joc
pedestrian n • joc
perfume(d) pussy n • joc
petunia n • joc
piss uncle n • [By joc analogy with piss ant..]
P.K. n • [Perh joc abbr for polecat 1 or piss cat]
plant v 1 • joc or euphem
pleasure-bent adj phr • joc
polecat n 4b • joc
pontoon n 2 • joc
poor Sam n • joc
Portuguese n, adj C • Used with derog force in var joc combs
post office n • joc
proboscis n • joc (MAP)
pull v 1b • joc
pulling corn vbl n • joc
Rackensack n • joc
rainberella n • [Joc blend of rain + umbrella]
rain-shaker n • joc
read one’s title(s) clear v phr • [Joc adaptation of the first words of a hymn by Isaac Watts..]
rider boys n • [Joc var of arthritis]
riveter n • joc
rock rancher n • [In joc imitation of compounds like chicken rancher, hay ~ (at rancher)]
Roly Holer n • [Joc metath of Holy Roller] (MAP)
rumpus n • [Joc varr of rump]
sagaciate v • joc
Sambo n1 • often derog or joc
sawbones n 1 • joc or derog
Scandihoovian n, adj • [Joc varr of Scandinavian] (MAP)
Scowegian n • joc or derog
scut n2 • derog or joc
scutter n1 1 • derog or joc
scutter n1 2 • derog or joc
scutter n1 3 • joc
Sears-Roebuck adj 1 • joc
see you in church exclam • joc (MAP)
sewage inspector n • joc
shanty n 6 • [Joc transf of shanty a crudely built shack..]
sheep dip n • joc or derog
sheffi n • [Joc pronc of chef]
shingle weaver n • joc
shirt rabbit n • joc
side by each adv phr • often joc (MAP)
sidehill n 2d • in var joc combs referring to bacon or to illegally killed venison
Siwash n 4 • joc or derog
skip n1 • joc
-sky suff • Used as a joc word-forming suff
snapper n 7 • joc
snipe n 5 • joc
sour belly n • joc
sow coon n 2 • joc
squash n1 B2 • joc
squire n B1 • occas joc
steady adv B2 • joc
step ant n • joc
sticking plaster n • joc
storm windows n pl • joc
stout house n • joc
strawberry n 2 • joc
strawberry n 3 • joc
stumpblower, old n • joc
suffancified adj • used as a humorously exaggerated formula of politeness when refusing food
sugan n • [..Perh..ultimately from a joc comparison of coarse cloth to something made of straw rope..]
sunberella n • [Joc blend of sun + umbrella]
Sunday, look both ways for v phr • also used in var joc expressions to imply that one is cross-eyed
Sunday throat n • joc
susanside n • [Joc var of suicide]
swamp measles n pl • joc
table muscle n • joc
teacups n pl • joc
telephone booth n • joc
ten-gallon hat n • [In humorous ref to its size..]
Tennessee chicken n • Used as a joc..term for some meat other than chicken, esp salt pork
Texas n B2 • attrib in var joc combs
think box n • joc
thunderstick n • joc
tickle box n • joc
tie-ticket n • joc
tikiteet n • [Prob joc alter of tête-à-tête a type of sofa designed to allow two persons to converse face to face]
timber n • joc
timberdoodle n • [Perh humorous or euphem alteration of woodcock..]
tommytoe n • [Joc or folk-etym var of tomato]
tooth carpenter n • usu joc
toothpick n • joc
topknot n 1 • joc
town dude n • Used as a joc or derog name for a city person (MAP)
trick n 3 • joc
trundle-bed trash n 2 • joc
twilight n 1 • [Joc var of Fr pronc of toilet]
uncle n 3 • [By joc analogy with aunt [ænt]]
victual n • old-fash or joc
war department n • joc
whiskey-palian n • [Joc varr of Episcopalian] (MAP)
whiskey tree n 2 • joc
William n • joc
winter potato n • joc
Yankee cotton n • joc
yard-a-night n • joc