Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Jacky

Jacky , noun

Dim. or pet from Jack

(a)

A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter.

(b)

English gin. [Dialectal English]

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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