jockey

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. One who rides racehorses competitively.
2. That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
3. (in-compounds) An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
4. (dated) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
5. (dated) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
6. (UK, slang) A prostitute's client.
7. (Ireland, slang) A rapist.

Verb

1. To ride (a horse) in a race.
2. To jostle by riding against.
3. To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.
4. To cheat or trick.

Conceptes

joquei

genet

Sinònims

cheat

chicane

deceiver

hoodwinker

film

📽️

fool

fraud

crook

horseman

trick

membrane

rook

shaft

bilk

knave

screw

swindler

chouse

controller

coach

circus rider

blackleg

diaphragm

circumvent

instructor

diddle

director

drive

driver

dupe

impose

deceive

bilker

befool

humbug

horsewoman

counselor

horse-dealer

hoodwink

hoax

counsellor

chisel

gyp

guide

conjure

hymen

gouge

imposture

con

complot

Traduccions

jockey

fantino

jockey

jóquei

Jockey

αναβάτης

jockey

Jockei

jinete

τζόκεϋ

cokey

joquei

yóquei

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈdʒɒki/

Etimologia (Anglès)

The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.