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minute-jack en · NOUN
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A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; Jack o' the clock.
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(obsolete) A timeserver; an inconstant person.
Cap-and-knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks!
c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
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