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jackeen en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdʒæˌkin/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈdʒakiːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈdʒækiːn/ (Ireland)

Etymology

From Jack + -een (“little”), from Jack being a common English name.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, derogatory) An arrogant lower-class person, especially in Dublin; (hence), a Dubliner, especially as contrasted with someone from a rural area.
   • A buckeen, a jackeen, a squireen, or any of the intermediate classes. 1840, Fraser's Magazine, volume 22, page 320:
   • Mr Dedalus told the same tale, that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickakafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen. 1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 105:
   • Jackeens loitering about the Dublin theatres. 1892 July, Quarterly Review, page 138:

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