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Encyclopedia Britannica



JOCKEY

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 427 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JOCKEY , a professional rider of race-horses, now the current usage (see
HORSE
 -RACING). The word is by origin a diminutive of " Jock," the Northern or Scots colloquial equivalent of the name " John " (cf. JACK). A
familiar
  instance of the use of the word as a name is in " Jockey of Norfolk " in Shakespeare's
Richard
  III. v. 3, 304. In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to
horse
 -dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "
sharp
 ," whence " to jockey," to outwit, or " do " a person out of something. The current usage is found in John
Evelyn
 's Diary, 1670, when it was clearly well known. George
Borrow
 's attempt to derive the word from the gipsy chukni, a heavy whip used by horse-dealing
gipsies
 , has no
foundation
 .


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