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jack-boy en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of jack boy.
Come you a wooing, And I alive and lusty? you shall find An alteration, jack-boys; I have a spirit yet (An I could match my hair to't, there's the fault), And can do offices of youth yet lightly;
1856, Philip Massinger, William Gifford, The Plays of Philip Massinger, page 510:The news soon spread from boy to boy and from ward to ward ; and there was an extraordinary call upon the services of the jack-boys, whose utmost exertions were scarcely equal to the demand.
1895, An Old Blue, “Reminiscences of Christ's Hospital”, in Some More Gleanings, page 45:He was lower than the jack-boys and hirelings of the tuath, being generally a prisoner taken in war or an outlaw from some other tuath.
1916, Darrell Figgis, Æ (George W. Russell): A Study of a Man and a Nation, page 131:
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