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单词 jarvey
释义

jarveyn.

/ˈdʒɑːvi/
Forms: Also jarvy, jarvie.
Etymology: By-form of Jarvis or Jervis, personal name.
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.
2. A hackney-coach. Obsolete.
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).
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