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单词 jackeen
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jackeenn.

Brit. /ˈdʒakiːn/, U.S. /ˈdʒæˌkin/, Irish English /ˈdʒækiːn/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Jack n.2, -een suffix2.
Etymology: < Jack n.2 + -een suffix2.
Irish English colloquial (chiefly depreciative or derogatory).
Originally in Dublin: an ill-mannered lower-class person. Hence later: a Dubliner, esp. as contrasted with a person from a rural area (cf. culchie n.). Frequently in Dublin jackeen.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt > male
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sincanterc1540
cullion1575
cur1600
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codworm1615
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swab1687
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1810 Hibernia Mag. Mar. 143 The shameless conduct of a gang of the ‘private players’..in the galleries, joined by a few jackeens of the pit.
1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 320 A buckeen, a jackeen, a squireen, or any of the intermediate classes.
1892 Q. Rev. July 138Jackeens’ loitering about the Dublin Theatres.
1970 E. Cross Tailor & Ansty (new ed.) Epil. ii. 168 Did none of them..never sit at an Irish fireside at night and listen to and join in the talk..or are they all but a pack of Dublin jackeens, aping the English.
1980 B. MacLaverty Lamb (1981) v. 43 If you're going to stay in a hotel you can't go in looking like a Dublin jackeen.
2015 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 28 Sept. 31 The outsider, the Dublin-born jackeen who knows little about the land or animal husbandry.

Compounds

General attributive and appositive, as jackeen accent, jackeen cousin, jackeen stereotype, etc.
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1834 Age 31 Aug. 275/2 We have been favoured..with one of the coolest displays of flippant impudence that it was in the power of an ignorant jackeen ripporthur to obtrude upon a gentleman.
1839 Era 16 June 449/2 He had been violently attacked..by two of the complainant's countrymen, because he attempted to put a stop to a sort of jackeen duel.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake iv. 620 You were pleased as Punch, recitating war exploits and pearse orations to them jackeen gapers.
1984 B. O'Byrne Wilson Place i. 22 Billy was..not so fond of his jackeen cousin that he wanted to help him in any way.
1986 R. Sproat Stunning the Punters 131 A Jackeen accent thick enough to bake bricks out of.
2014 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. (Weekend section) 8 A sketch about the fair's fictional Dublin equivalent, full of even dodgier Jackeen stereotypes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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