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Jack Nasty en · NOUN
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(dated) A valet or pageboy.
Tom and his younger brothers, as they grew up, went on playing with the village boys, without the idea of equality or inequality […] ever entering their heads; as it doesn't till it's put there by Jack Nastys or fine ladies' maids.
1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
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(dated) A contemptible or unpleasant person.
Don't lie, don't try to fool me, Ennis. I know what it means. Jack Twist? Jack Nasty.
1997, Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain, page 35:
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