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单词 jark
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jarkn.

Forms: 1500s iarcke, 1500s iarke, 1600s iark, 1600s ierke, 1600s–1900s jark, 1600s–1700s jarke, 1800s jurk.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps a specific sense of jerk n.1 (with lowered vowel before r ), although a semantic connection is difficult to establish (perhaps alluding to the gesture with which a seal is affixed). Compare jarkman n. and also jackman n.2The forms jasker and jacken closer recorded in 19th-cent. slang dictionaries may show variants of this word.
cant. Obsolete.
Originally: a seal, esp. one affixed to a counterfeit licence or pass. Later: a pass giving the bearer safe conduct (Oxford University slang in later use).
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1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. E.iv A Iarkmane hathe his name of a Iarke, which is a seale in their Languag.
1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. A2 A counterfaite Lisence (which they call a Gybe, and the seales they cal Iarckes).
1612 T. Dekker O per se O sig. N These counterfeit Ierkes (or Seales) are grauen with the point of a knife, vpon a stickes end.
1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xv. 136 His employment is to make Gybes with Iarkes to them,..by which he gets store of money to make himself drunk withal.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 92 ‘This is a jark from Jim Ratcliffe,’ said the taller, having looked at the bit of paper.
1849 Graham's Mag. Mar. 204/1 I've a friend as goes down on the mail in the morning, and mind, give him this jark.
1900 J. S. Farmer Public School Word-bk. 117 Jark, (Oxford)—A safe-conduct pass; a jasker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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