jockey

CEFRB2

/ˈd͡ʒɒki/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Someone employed to ride horses in horse races.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An operator of some machinery or apparatus.

Examples

  • He is out and away the best jockey.

  • Tom is a disc jockey.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire

  2. One who rides racehorses competitively.

  3. A dealer in horses; a horse trader.

More examples

In context

  • I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.

  • They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.

  • They're all jockeying for promotion.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

English -ey English jockey 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...