Notes And Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853
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] _Jockey. _--Mr. Borrow, in his Introduction to _The Gypsies of Spain_, says: "The English gypsies are constant attendants at the race-course. What jockey is not? Perhaps jockeyism originated with them, and even racing, at least in England. Jockeyism properly implies _the management of a whip_; and the word _jockey_ is neither more nor less than the term, slightly modified, by which they designate the formidable whip which they usually carry, at present in general use amongst horse-traffickers... under the title of jockey-whips. " Can any of your correspondents give the derivation of _jockey_?
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[Most etymologists derive it from _Jackey_, a diminutive of the Scotch term _Jock_, or _Jack_, John: primarily, a boy that rides horses. ] _Boyle Lectures. _--In that valuable and well-executed work, now publishingby Darling of Great Queen Street, called the _Cyclop
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] _Jockey. _--Mr. Borrow, in his Introduction to _The Gypsies of Spain_, says: "The English gypsies are constant attendants at the race-course. What jockey is not? Perhaps jockeyism originated with them, and even racing, at least in England. Jockeyism properly implies _the management of a whip_; and the word _jockey_ is neither more nor less than the term, slightly modified, by which they designate the formidable whip which they usually carry, at present in general use amongst horse-traffickers... under the title of jockey-whips. " Can any of your correspondents give the derivation of _jockey_?
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[Most etymologists derive it from _Jackey_, a diminutive of the Scotch term _Jock_, or _Jack_, John: primarily, a boy that rides horses. ] _Boyle Lectures. _--In that valuable and well-executed work, now publishingby Darling of Great Queen Street, called the _Cyclop
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