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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOCKEY , a professional rider of See also:

race-horses, now the current usage (see See also:HORSE-RACING). The word is by origin a diminutive of " Jock," the See also:Northern or Scots colloquial See also:equivalent of the name " See also:John " (cf. See also:JACK). A See also:familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in " Jockey of See also:Norfolk " in See also:Shakespeare's See also: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 the meaning of a cunning trickster, a " See also:sharp," whence " to jockey," to outwit, or " do " a See also:person out of something. The current usage is found in John See also:Evelyn's See also:Diary, 1670, when it was clearly well known. See also:George See also:Borrow's See also:attempt to derive the word from the gipsy chukni, a heavy See also:whip used by horse-dealing See also:gipsies, has no See also:foundation.

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