单词 | jockeyship |
释义 | jockeyshipn. 1. a. The art of a jockey; skill in horse racing. (Cf. horsemanship n.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > skill of jockeyship1785 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 276 We justly boast At least superior jockeyship, and claim The honours of the turf as all our own. 1894 Daily News 16 Apr. 3/7 This defeat was probably due to the inferior jockeyship of his rider. b. The practice of jockeying; trickery, artifice, adroit management for unfair advantage. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving swikingc1000 blindfolding?c1225 deceivancec1330 trechettingc1330 jugglingc1380 beguilingc1400 deceivingc1400 fagec1400 delusionc1420 sophisticationc1450 circumvention1534 illudinga1547 cheateryc1555 cheatingc1555 crossing1592 tricking1595 wiling?a1600 circumventing1603 practice1622 cheat1641 deluding1645 underdealing1649 amusement1658 conveyancing1676 bubbling1700 jockeyshipa1763 overreachinga1774 jockeying1779 beguilement1805 gaggery1819 trickstering1821 Jewing1842 wool-pulling1843 rigging1846 hoodwinking1858 old soldierism1866 old soldiering1867 fiddling1884 gold-bricking1901 wangling1911 finagling1926 hyping1968 a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 111 To vie in jockey-ship or cunning at a bett. 1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury ix. 87 Jockey-ship, a term of reproach..frequently applied to the arts of those who sell horses. 1846 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 22 Aug. (1884) III Newmarket does not afford more..instances of jockeyship, than could be found in the secret history of episcopal promotion. 2. As a mock title for a jockey. ΚΠ 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 233 If neither horse nor groom affect the squire, Where can at last his jockeyship retire? 3. Jockeys collectively. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > collectively jockeyshipc1820 jockeydom1869 c1820 T. Chalmers Serm. The full assembled jockeyship of half a province muster together. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1763 |
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