单词 | jarvey |
释义 | jarveyn. colloquial. 1. A hackney-coachman. Now frequently applied to the driver of an Irish car. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > of hackney-coach or cab hackney coachman1623 hack1662 hack driver1709 hackman1796 jarvey1820 cab1850 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Jarvis, a hackney coachman. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 181 Jervis's upper benjamin, a box, or coachman's great coat.] 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 391 To see him through the jar of jarvies pushing. 1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 184 I seek in vain for the old jarvey with his many-caped Benjamin. 1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life ii. 19 The driver [of a hackney-coach] was called a jarvey, a compliment paid to the class in consequence of one of them named Jarvis having been hanged. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage hackney coach1618 hell-cart1623 hackney1664 hack1692 fiacre1699 hackney carriage1735 dilly1805 street coach1818 jarvey1819 cab1822 hackney cab1832 gurney1884 cabriolet1907 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 639/2 He had a large loaf stuck upon the pole of the Jarvie in which he travelled. 1841 J. L. Motley Let. 28 Nov. in Corr. (1889) I. iv. 76 The droskies, the most awkward and inconvenient of all jarvies. 1868 H. C. R. Johnson Long Vac. Argentine Alps 163 A most wonderful and antique coach, something like an enormous ghost of one of the London jarveys of fifty years ago. Derivatives ˈjarvey v. (intransitive) to act the jarvey, to drive a carriage. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > drive horse-drawn vehicle Jehu1822 jarvey1826 1826 Sporting Mag. 19 18 No one can pronounce that person a ‘good whip’ who has only been seen jarveying along a turnpike level road. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1819 |
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