jockey

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

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

Sinônimos

cheat

deceiver

chicane

bilk

film

📽️

fool

fraud

controller

chouse

membrane

crook

swindler

rook

trick

knave

screw

hoodwinker

shaft

horseman

diddle

director

drive

driver

dupe

equestrian

faker

gouge

guide

gyp

hoax

hoodwink

horse-dealer

horsewoman

humbug

hymen

impose

imposture

instructor

jig

juggle

machinate

maneuver

manoeuvre

operate

operator

overreach

pellicle

plot

pump

put on

raider

rider

scheme

set up

sham

shark

🦈

sharp

shave

shaver

shortchange

slicker

spoof

stage director

steerer

surge

swindle

trainer

tricker

trickster

tympanum

victimizer

webbing

welch

welcher

welsher

wise man

manoeuver

shammer

membrana

tunica

belt tightener

coupling device

cozener

circumventor

circumventer

vibrating membrane

vibration diaphragm

linkage unit

hymeno

hookup mechanism

adapter

adapting device

bamboozle

befool

beguiler

bilker

blackleg

bluff

chisel

circumvent

circus rider

coach

collogue

complot

con

conjure

counsellor

counselor

deceive

diaphragm

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈdʒɒki/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.