JOCKEY  , a professional rider of See also:

• RACE

race-horses, now the current usage (see See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

HORSE-RACING) . The word is by origin a diminutive of " Jock," the See also:

• NORTHERN

Northern or Scots colloquial See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent of the name " See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John " (cf . See also:

• JACK

JACK) . A See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in " Jockey of See also:

• NORFOLK
• NORFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Norfolk " in See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare's See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard III. v . 3, 304 . In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently See also:

• BORE

bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a " See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp," whence " to jockey," to outwit, or " do " a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person out of something . The current usage is found in John See also:

• EVELYN, JOHN (1620-1706)

Evelyn's See also:

• DIARY

Diary, 1670, when it was clearly well known . See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• BORROW, GEORGE HENRY (18o3-1881)

Borrow's See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to derive the word from the gipsy chukni, a heavy See also:

• WHIP

whip used by horse-dealing See also:

• GIPSIES, or GYPSIES

gipsies, has no See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation .