subs. (old).—Gin. For synonyms, see DRINKS and SATIN.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. JACKEY. Gin.
1821. P. EGAN, Life in London, p. 179. Taking her drops of JACKEY with old Mother Brimstone.
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v.
1827. BULWER-LYTTON, Pelham [ed. 1864], p. 302. Well, you parish bull prig, are you for lushing JACKY, or pattering in the hum-box.
1859. G. A. SALA, Gaslight and Daylight, xxiii. The stuff itself, which in the western gin-shops goes generally by the name of ‘blue ruin’ or ‘short,’ is here called … ‘JACKY.’
1878. W. S. GILBERT, H.M.S. Pinafore, i. I’ve snuff and tobaccy, and excellent JACKY.
