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jockeying, vbl. n.|ˈdʒɒkɪɪŋ|
[f. jockey v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb jockey.
1. Horse-dealing; the riding and management of race-horses. Also attrib.
a1770C. Smart Duellist 58 A thousand trifles not worth naming, In whoring, jockeying, and gaming. 1837Mrs. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. iii. 33 Unless Mr. Dalben thinks of bringing him up in the jockeying line.
2. Adroit management for the purpose of gaining an advantage, esp. an unfair one; trickery, cheating.
1779G. Williams Let. 28 Feb. in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1907) XLIII. 202 The Makers of Money sent it to there servants to purchas goods and thay knew it was to be out of circulation in a few months. It would be called by some Jockeing. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 293 In their zeal to get a good seat..a vast deal of jockeying and unfair play was shown. c1810M. Edgeworth Stories of Ireland v, It's not called swindling amongst gentlemen, who know the world: it's only jockeying—fine sport—and very honourable, to help a friend, at a dead lift. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t., Race of Life, That turf where there is no more jockeying. 1897W. M. Ramsay in Brit. Weekly 20 May 78 No one among us will ever look back to it without blushing for the jockeying by which it was effected. |