skipjackn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈskɪpdʒak/, U.S.

/ˈskɪpˌdʒæk/

Forms: Also 1500s scipjacke, scipjake, 1500s–1600s skipiack(e, 1600s skipjacke.

Etymology: < skip v.¹ + Jack n.²

A. n.

1. A pert shallow-brained fellow; a puppy, a whippersnapper; a conceited fop or dandy. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy

popa1500

miniona1513

prick-me-daintya1529

puppy?1544

velvet-coat1549

skipjack1554

coxcomb1567

musk cat?1567

physbuttocke1570

Adonis?1571

Adon1590

foretop1597

musk-cod1600

pretty fellow1600

sparkc1600

spangle-baby1602

flash1605

barber-monger1608

cocoloch1610

dapperling1611

fantastica1613

feather-cock1612

trig1612

jack-a-dandy?1617

gimcrack1623

satinist1639

powder puffa1653

fop1676

prig1676

foplinga1681

cockcomb1684

beau garçona1687

shape1688

duke1699

nab1699

smirk1699

beau1700

petty master1706

moppet1707

Tom Astoner1707

dapper1709

petit maître1711

buck1725

toupee1727

toupet1728

toupet-man1748

jemmy1753

jessamy1753

macaroni1764

majoc1770

monkeyrony1773

dandyc1780

elegant1780

muscadin1794

incroyable1797

beauty man1800

bang-up1811

natty1818

ruffian1818

exquisite1819

heavy swell1819

marvellous1819

bit of stuff1828

merveilleux1830

fat1832

squirt1844

dandyling1846

ineffable1859

guinea pig1860

Dundreary swell1862

masher1872

dude1877

mash1879

dudette1883

dand1886

heavy gunner1890

posh1890

nut1904

smoothie1929

fancy-pants1930

saga boy1941

fancy Dan1943

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > young man

princock1540

puppy?1544

skipjack1554

pup1590

whelp1611

whisk1629

whippersnapper1674

whiffet1839

Jack the Lad1968

Essex man1990

1554 T. Martin Traictise Marriage of Priestes sig. Llii^v A way was opened to euery skipiack that lusted to make hymselfe a priest.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 114/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I I trust to see the day, when..your children..shall disdaine the companie of any such skip Jack [1587 skipiacke].

1604 S. Rowlands Looke to It (Hunterian Club) 38 You nimble skipiacke, turning on the toe, As though you had Gun-pouder in your tayle.

1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata To Rdr. 18 Our shoes and fantastical stockins speak us rather Skip~jacks, Whifflers or Antics, then sober and solid men.

1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. ix. 230 How few of our fashionable skip-jacks..possess a spark of that spirit.

1869 Daily News 12 June Noble bronze faces, which contrast rather strongly with the countenance of the simpering skipjack who has preceded them.

†2. A horse-dealer's boy; a jockey. Obsolete.In later dictionaries.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in horses > horse dealer's boy

skipjack1608

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider

skipjack1608

horse racerc1618

rider1632

stager1638

jockeya1684

horse-jockey1782

jock1826

equison1846

hoop1941

pilot1976

1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. I2^v The boyes, striplings, &c. that haue the Riding of the Iades vp and downe are called Skip-Iacks.

1674 T. Staveley Romish Horseleech xxv. 215 If friars should wear short habits they would look more like Jockeys and Millers than Friars... And then,..will it not be a rare sight for us to go like skipjacks and Millers?

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Skip-jacks, youngsters that Ride the Horses for Sale.

3. A toy made of the merrythought of a fowl, and so contrived that it can be made to skip automatically; also, the merrythought itself.

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the world > animals > birds > bones > [noun] > furcula or wishbone

froshell1486

merrythought1598

craw-bone1611

skipjack1805

furculum1833

fourchette1854

furcula1859

wishbone1860

pulling bone1877

pully-bone1897

skip-bone1901

pull-bonea1903

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > toy made from wishbone

skipjack1805

jumping-jack1883

skip-bone1901

1805 Poet. Reg. 179 Thy bony breast Shall featly frisk it o'er the cottage floor, A strange automaton, by village hinds A Skip-Jack nam'd.

1815 M. Edgeworth Frank in Early Lessons (new ed.) I. 207 This is as tight and strong as the stick and string in my skip-jack.

4. The name of various fishes which have a habit of leaping out of the water, esp. the blue-fish (Temnodon or Pomatomus saltator) of tropical and subtropical seas. Also attributive, esp. in skipjack tuna n. a tropical pelagic food fish, Katsuwonus pelamis, of the family Scombridæ, distinguished by its large size and striped body.In American use the name is also given to the horse-mackerel, Ohio shad, and brook silverside (1882 Jordan & Gilbert Fishes N. Amer.), the bonito, jurel, runner, leather-jacket, butter-fish, cutlass-fish, etc. (1884 Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim.).

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > member of genus Temnodon (skipjack)

horse1672

skipjack1703

snapping mackerel1861

skip mackerel1884

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > katsuwonus pelamis (skipjack tuna)

tuna1881

striped tuna1922

skipjack tuna1961

1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 115 I saw also some Boneta's, and some Skipjacks, a Fish about 8 Inches long, broad and sizable, not much unlike a Roach.

1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 317 Saltatrix. The Skip-Jack. It hath obtained its Name from its frequent Skipping out of the Water.

1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 393 [The] sea was covered with Portuguese men of war, of which [we] took up several; also some pilot-fish and skip-jacks.

1815 Sporting Mag. 46 225 That species of whale, called by sailors skip jacks.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. vi. 206 Pelicans..fell into the water with wide-spread wings, and after a splash, rose with another skipjack in their pouch.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 76 Snapper-fishing is usually carried on with a bottom bait of skip-jack, bluefish, or young shark.

1920 E. Blunden Waggoner 2 Where flock and shine the skip-jack dace.

1936 P. S. Barnhart Marine Fishes S. Calif. 36 Skipjack..a pelagic fish of a wide range.

1937 L. A. Walford Marine Game Fishes Pacific Coast 17 The skipjack is the smallest of the tunas, rarely exceeding 25 inches in length.

1949 G. C. Thomas & W. W. Lovett in B. Vesey-Fitzgerald & F. Lamonte Game Fish of World ii. 132 There are the oceanic bonito, known locally as the skipjack, and the California bonito.

1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 229 (caption) Skipjack Tuna..world-wide in tropical waters.

1973 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 44/3 The most valuable fish in Papua New Guinea waters are skipjack tuna.

a. A beetle belonging to the family Elateridæ; a click-beetle (see click n.¹ 6) or spring-beetle. Also attributive.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > member of (click-beetle)

snap-beetle1698

spring beetle1782

skipper1796

elater1813

skipjack1817

snap-bug1834

click1848

snapping beetle (or bug, jack)1861

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiii. 317 The numerous species of the elastic beetles (Elater, L.), skip~jacks as some call them, perform this motion by means of a pectoral process or mucro.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 93 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV From this habit of suddenly springing into the air, these insects are known in Europe by the common name of ‘skip-jacks’.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. i. 24 The Elaters—fire-fly, or skip-jack beetles.

b. A kind of trout-fly.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > trout flies

trout-fly1746

wren's-tail1837

Greenwell's glory1867

skipjack1867

spent gnat1867

Greenwell1872

heckum-peckum1876

Wickham1876

Saltoun1886

muddler1924

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 202 There is a smaller fly..called the Skipjack.

6. U.S. A kind of sailing-boat (see quot. 1976). Also attributive.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > other types of fishing vessel

spindlers-boat1243

manfare1326

stall boat1328

dogger1338

hackboat1344

coble1493

peter-boat1540

monger1558

trimboat1558

shotter1580

crab-skuit1614

fly-boat1614

cantera1642

dogger-boat1646

cag1666

yawl1670

barca-longa1681

hogboat1784

fishing-smack1785

hooker1801

hatch-boat1828

pinkie1840

fishing-bark1841

pookhaun1851

garookuh1855

jigger1860

fisher-bark1862

fisher-keel1870

Norwegian1872

scaf1877

mule coble1883

mule1884

Zulu1884

novy1885

tosher1885

skipjack1887

fleeter1888

fishing-float1893

rodney1895

mutton-ham boat1899

nobby1899

sinagot1927

sport fisherman1937

sport fisher1940

ski-boat1964

belly boat1976

1887 Forest & Stream IX. 75 The ‘skip-jack’ is a connecting link between the skiff and the round-bottom boat.

1941 H. I. Chapelle Boatbuilding i. 36 The well-known Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks may be taken to represent the next type, having a good deal of beam and more dead rise than the modified sharpies.

1968 Washington Star 27 May b1/2 They were watching last October's Chesapeake Appreciation Day skipjack races, off Annapolis.

1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 807/2 Skipjack, a work-boat of the east coast of the U.S.A., sloop-rigged with a jib~headed mainsail and a foresail set on a bowsprit. They were hard-chined boats with a large wooden centreboard.

1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 725 In winter months he labored aboard a white man's skipjack dredging oysters... In spring he helped the skipjack captain haul timber to Baltimore.

B. adj.

a. Having the trifling, petty, or flighty qualities of a skipjack; puppyish, foppish.

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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish

quaintc1330

skipjack1598

satin1603

coxcombly1610

prigginga1627

coxcombical1649

skipjackly1674

jessamy1696

beauish1699

foppish1699

priggish1701

Jemmy Jessamine1786

macaronian1792

buckish1806

dandy1813

dandified1826

dandyish1826

Brummellian1829

dandyic1832

dandiacal1834

squirtish1843

macaronyish1858

fine-gentlemanish1865

foppy1878

dude1879

dudish1883

fancy1891

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > pert or brash

pertc1405

skipjack1598

puppily1682

whelpish1688

saucy1710

owdacious1751

minxing1767

puppyish1775

puppy-like1792

brash1824

pertish1836

cheekish1838

uppish1841

tossy1848

fly1884

soubrettish1891

whipper-snapping1925

in your face1975

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > affected or foppish

skipjack1598

skipjackly1674

fal-lal1747

macaronian1792

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. B3 The world finds fault with Gellia, for she loues A skip-iack fidler.

1645 Arraignment Persecution Ep. Ded. 2 Such a Quagmire of croaking skip~jacke Presbyters.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse v. 96 I verily believ'd, Miss had got some pitiful Skip-jack Varlet or other to her Husband.

b. transferred. Of things.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial

frivol1492

fustian1523

triflinga1538

tirlery1546

trumpery1576

mockado1577

skipjack1597

flashy1598

trifle1607

fripperya1625

bagatelle1637

fingle-fangled1651

tawdry1696

sauntering1726

gimcrack1751

folderol1820

tin1886

shicec1890

cotton candy1951

candyfloss1957

1597 Returne fr. Parnassus i. i. 464 Why, I cannot abide these scipjake blanke verses.

1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 75 Meer vagrant imaginations seated in your own subsultorious and skip-jack phansie onely.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. xiv. 360 These petty Skip-Jack Aspects which have to do..where ever the Sun hath to do.

2. Hopping, jumping, skipping.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > skipping > characterized by

skipping1596

skipjack1605

skippy1883

1605 P. Woodhouse Flea (1877) 18 For I shall make it very plaine appeare, This little skip-iack beast, his worth is small.

c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1311 What w^th your skip Iacke fleas, y^e nap of my sleepe was worne off.

Derivatives

ˈskipjackly adj. rare

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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish

quaintc1330

skipjack1598

satin1603

coxcombly1610

prigginga1627

coxcombical1649

skipjackly1674

jessamy1696

beauish1699

foppish1699

priggish1701

Jemmy Jessamine1786

macaronian1792

buckish1806

dandy1813

dandified1826

dandyish1826

Brummellian1829

dandyic1832

dandiacal1834

squirtish1843

macaronyish1858

fine-gentlemanish1865

foppy1878

dude1879

dudish1883

fancy1891

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > affected or foppish

skipjack1598

skipjackly1674

fal-lal1747

macaronian1792

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 135 Now 'tis but odde to think how such a flicketing skipjackly thing as that is..should be bound to the behaviour of such a grave stayd thing as time is.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	skipjack
释义	skipjackn.adj. Brit. /ˈskɪpdʒak/, U.S. /ˈskɪpˌdʒæk/ Forms: Also 1500s scipjacke, scipjake, 1500s–1600s skipiack(e, 1600s skipjacke. Etymology: < skip v.¹ + Jack n.² A. n. 1. A pert shallow-brained fellow; a puppy, a whippersnapper; a conceited fop or dandy. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy popa1500 miniona1513 prick-me-daintya1529 puppy?1544 velvet-coat1549 skipjack1554 coxcomb1567 musk cat?1567 physbuttocke1570 Adonis?1571 Adon1590 foretop1597 musk-cod1600 pretty fellow1600 sparkc1600 spangle-baby1602 flash1605 barber-monger1608 cocoloch1610 dapperling1611 fantastica1613 feather-cock1612 trig1612 jack-a-dandy?1617 gimcrack1623 satinist1639 powder puffa1653 fop1676 prig1676 foplinga1681 cockcomb1684 beau garçona1687 shape1688 duke1699 nab1699 smirk1699 beau1700 petty master1706 moppet1707 Tom Astoner1707 dapper1709 petit maître1711 buck1725 toupee1727 toupet1728 toupet-man1748 jemmy1753 jessamy1753 macaroni1764 majoc1770 monkeyrony1773 dandyc1780 elegant1780 muscadin1794 incroyable1797 beauty man1800 bang-up1811 natty1818 ruffian1818 exquisite1819 heavy swell1819 marvellous1819 bit of stuff1828 merveilleux1830 fat1832 squirt1844 dandyling1846 ineffable1859 guinea pig1860 Dundreary swell1862 masher1872 dude1877 mash1879 dudette1883 dand1886 heavy gunner1890 posh1890 nut1904 smoothie1929 fancy-pants1930 saga boy1941 fancy Dan1943 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > young man princock1540 puppy?1544 skipjack1554 pup1590 whelp1611 whisk1629 whippersnapper1674 whiffet1839 Jack the Lad1968 Essex man1990 1554 T. Martin Traictise Marriage of Priestes sig. Llii^v A way was opened to euery skipiack that lusted to make hymselfe a priest. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 114/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I I trust to see the day, when..your children..shall disdaine the companie of any such skip Jack [1587 skipiacke]. 1604 S. Rowlands Looke to It (Hunterian Club) 38 You nimble skipiacke, turning on the toe, As though you had Gun-pouder in your tayle. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata To Rdr. 18 Our shoes and fantastical stockins speak us rather Skip~jacks, Whifflers or Antics, then sober and solid men. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. ix. 230 How few of our fashionable skip-jacks..possess a spark of that spirit. 1869 Daily News 12 June Noble bronze faces, which contrast rather strongly with the countenance of the simpering skipjack who has preceded them. †2. A horse-dealer's boy; a jockey. Obsolete.In later dictionaries. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in horses > horse dealer's boy skipjack1608 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider skipjack1608 horse racerc1618 rider1632 stager1638 jockeya1684 horse-jockey1782 jock1826 equison1846 hoop1941 pilot1976 1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. I2^v The boyes, striplings, &c. that haue the Riding of the Iades vp and downe are called Skip-Iacks. 1674 T. Staveley Romish Horseleech xxv. 215 If friars should wear short habits they would look more like Jockeys and Millers than Friars... And then,..will it not be a rare sight for us to go like skipjacks and Millers? 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Skip-jacks, youngsters that Ride the Horses for Sale. 3. A toy made of the merrythought of a fowl, and so contrived that it can be made to skip automatically; also, the merrythought itself. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > bones > [noun] > furcula or wishbone froshell1486 merrythought1598 craw-bone1611 skipjack1805 furculum1833 fourchette1854 furcula1859 wishbone1860 pulling bone1877 pully-bone1897 skip-bone1901 pull-bonea1903 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > toy made from wishbone skipjack1805 jumping-jack1883 skip-bone1901 1805 Poet. Reg. 179 Thy bony breast Shall featly frisk it o'er the cottage floor, A strange automaton, by village hinds A Skip-Jack nam'd. 1815 M. Edgeworth Frank in Early Lessons (new ed.) I. 207 This is as tight and strong as the stick and string in my skip-jack. 4. The name of various fishes which have a habit of leaping out of the water, esp. the blue-fish (Temnodon or Pomatomus saltator) of tropical and subtropical seas. Also attributive, esp. in skipjack tuna n. a tropical pelagic food fish, Katsuwonus pelamis, of the family Scombridæ, distinguished by its large size and striped body.In American use the name is also given to the horse-mackerel, Ohio shad, and brook silverside (1882 Jordan & Gilbert Fishes N. Amer.), the bonito, jurel, runner, leather-jacket, butter-fish, cutlass-fish, etc. (1884 Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > member of genus Temnodon (skipjack) horse1672 skipjack1703 snapping mackerel1861 skip mackerel1884 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > katsuwonus pelamis (skipjack tuna) tuna1881 striped tuna1922 skipjack tuna1961 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 115 I saw also some Boneta's, and some Skipjacks, a Fish about 8 Inches long, broad and sizable, not much unlike a Roach. 1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 317 Saltatrix. The Skip-Jack. It hath obtained its Name from its frequent Skipping out of the Water. 1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 393 [The] sea was covered with Portuguese men of war, of which [we] took up several; also some pilot-fish and skip-jacks. 1815 Sporting Mag. 46 225 That species of whale, called by sailors skip jacks. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. vi. 206 Pelicans..fell into the water with wide-spread wings, and after a splash, rose with another skipjack in their pouch. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 76 Snapper-fishing is usually carried on with a bottom bait of skip-jack, bluefish, or young shark. 1920 E. Blunden Waggoner 2 Where flock and shine the skip-jack dace. 1936 P. S. Barnhart Marine Fishes S. Calif. 36 Skipjack..a pelagic fish of a wide range. 1937 L. A. Walford Marine Game Fishes Pacific Coast 17 The skipjack is the smallest of the tunas, rarely exceeding 25 inches in length. 1949 G. C. Thomas & W. W. Lovett in B. Vesey-Fitzgerald & F. Lamonte Game Fish of World ii. 132 There are the oceanic bonito, known locally as the skipjack, and the California bonito. 1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 229 (caption) Skipjack Tuna..world-wide in tropical waters. 1973 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 44/3 The most valuable fish in Papua New Guinea waters are skipjack tuna. 5. a. A beetle belonging to the family Elateridæ; a click-beetle (see click n.¹ 6) or spring-beetle. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > member of (click-beetle) snap-beetle1698 spring beetle1782 skipper1796 elater1813 skipjack1817 snap-bug1834 click1848 snapping beetle (or bug, jack)1861 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiii. 317 The numerous species of the elastic beetles (Elater, L.), skip~jacks as some call them, perform this motion by means of a pectoral process or mucro. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 93 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV From this habit of suddenly springing into the air, these insects are known in Europe by the common name of ‘skip-jacks’. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. i. 24 The Elaters—fire-fly, or skip-jack beetles. b. A kind of trout-fly. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > trout flies trout-fly1746 wren's-tail1837 Greenwell's glory1867 skipjack1867 spent gnat1867 Greenwell1872 heckum-peckum1876 Wickham1876 Saltoun1886 muddler1924 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 202 There is a smaller fly..called the Skipjack. 6. U.S. A kind of sailing-boat (see quot. 1976). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > other types of fishing vessel spindlers-boat1243 manfare1326 stall boat1328 dogger1338 hackboat1344 coble1493 peter-boat1540 monger1558 trimboat1558 shotter1580 crab-skuit1614 fly-boat1614 cantera1642 dogger-boat1646 cag1666 yawl1670 barca-longa1681 hogboat1784 fishing-smack1785 hooker1801 hatch-boat1828 pinkie1840 fishing-bark1841 pookhaun1851 garookuh1855 jigger1860 fisher-bark1862 fisher-keel1870 Norwegian1872 scaf1877 mule coble1883 mule1884 Zulu1884 novy1885 tosher1885 skipjack1887 fleeter1888 fishing-float1893 rodney1895 mutton-ham boat1899 nobby1899 sinagot1927 sport fisherman1937 sport fisher1940 ski-boat1964 belly boat1976 1887 Forest & Stream IX. 75 The ‘skip-jack’ is a connecting link between the skiff and the round-bottom boat. 1941 H. I. Chapelle Boatbuilding i. 36 The well-known Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks may be taken to represent the next type, having a good deal of beam and more dead rise than the modified sharpies. 1968 Washington Star 27 May b1/2 They were watching last October's Chesapeake Appreciation Day skipjack races, off Annapolis. 1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 807/2 Skipjack, a work-boat of the east coast of the U.S.A., sloop-rigged with a jib~headed mainsail and a foresail set on a bowsprit. They were hard-chined boats with a large wooden centreboard. 1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 725 In winter months he labored aboard a white man's skipjack dredging oysters... In spring he helped the skipjack captain haul timber to Baltimore. B. adj. 1. a. Having the trifling, petty, or flighty qualities of a skipjack; puppyish, foppish. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish quaintc1330 skipjack1598 satin1603 coxcombly1610 prigginga1627 coxcombical1649 skipjackly1674 jessamy1696 beauish1699 foppish1699 priggish1701 Jemmy Jessamine1786 macaronian1792 buckish1806 dandy1813 dandified1826 dandyish1826 Brummellian1829 dandyic1832 dandiacal1834 squirtish1843 macaronyish1858 fine-gentlemanish1865 foppy1878 dude1879 dudish1883 fancy1891 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > pert or brash pertc1405 skipjack1598 puppily1682 whelpish1688 saucy1710 owdacious1751 minxing1767 puppyish1775 puppy-like1792 brash1824 pertish1836 cheekish1838 uppish1841 tossy1848 fly1884 soubrettish1891 whipper-snapping1925 in your face1975 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > affected or foppish skipjack1598 skipjackly1674 fal-lal1747 macaronian1792 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. B3 The world finds fault with Gellia, for she loues A skip-iack fidler. 1645 Arraignment Persecution Ep. Ded. 2 Such a Quagmire of croaking skip~jacke Presbyters. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse v. 96 I verily believ'd, Miss had got some pitiful Skip-jack Varlet or other to her Husband. b. transferred. Of things. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial frivol1492 fustian1523 triflinga1538 tirlery1546 trumpery1576 mockado1577 skipjack1597 flashy1598 trifle1607 fripperya1625 bagatelle1637 fingle-fangled1651 tawdry1696 sauntering1726 gimcrack1751 folderol1820 tin1886 shicec1890 cotton candy1951 candyfloss1957 1597 Returne fr. Parnassus i. i. 464 Why, I cannot abide these scipjake blanke verses. 1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 75 Meer vagrant imaginations seated in your own subsultorious and skip-jack phansie onely. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. xiv. 360 These petty Skip-Jack Aspects which have to do..where ever the Sun hath to do. 2. Hopping, jumping, skipping. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > skipping > characterized by skipping1596 skipjack1605 skippy1883 1605 P. Woodhouse Flea (1877) 18 For I shall make it very plaine appeare, This little skip-iack beast, his worth is small. c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1311 What w^th your skip Iacke fleas, y^e nap of my sleepe was worne off. Derivatives ˈskipjackly adj. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish quaintc1330 skipjack1598 satin1603 coxcombly1610 prigginga1627 coxcombical1649 skipjackly1674 jessamy1696 beauish1699 foppish1699 priggish1701 Jemmy Jessamine1786 macaronian1792 buckish1806 dandy1813 dandified1826 dandyish1826 Brummellian1829 dandyic1832 dandiacal1834 squirtish1843 macaronyish1858 fine-gentlemanish1865 foppy1878 dude1879 dudish1883 fancy1891 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > affected or foppish skipjack1598 skipjackly1674 fal-lal1747 macaronian1792 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 135 Now 'tis but odde to think how such a flicketing skipjackly thing as that is..should be bound to the behaviour of such a grave stayd thing as time is. 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