Dictionary of Contemporary Slang by Tony Thorne

Author:Tony Thorne
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

jingle n

1. British cash, money, coins. A term used in raffish circles since the 1930s, if not earlier. It has also been recorded in Australian speech.

I’m a bit short of jingle.

2. American a telephone call. An American version of the British bell or tinkle, as in ‘give me a jingle’.

jissom, jiss, jizz, jism, jissum, gism n semen. A word of unknown origin, dating from the 19th century in the USA and by the early 1970s in use all over the English-speaking world.

jitter n, adj British

(something or someone) unpleasant, obnoxious. In playground usage since the 1990s.

jive1 n

1. deceitful or pretentious talk or behaviour, nonsense.

See also jive talk

2. a style of fast dancing to accompany swing music or rock ’n’ roll

Both senses of the term originate in black American slang of unknown etymology (it may be from jibe in the sense of change tack, manoeuvre – in conversation or dance – but is more probably derived from a West African dialect term).

3. American marihuana. A now obsolete usage.

jive2 vb

1. to deceive, tease, browbeat. A black American term from the early 20th century which enjoyed a vogue among black and white speakers in the late 1980s. For the possible origins of the word, see the noun form.

‘It was always about the man, how they were going to jive the man into giving them a million dollars.’

(The Switch, Elmore Leonard, 1978)

2. to dance in a fast energetic style which corresponded in the 1940s to swing music and from the 1950s to rock ’n’ roll

jive-ass adj American

deceitful, pretentious, worthless. A black expression combining jive (worthless or deceitful talk or behaviour) and the suffix -ass.

I don’t want no jive-ass honky lawyer jerkin’ me around.

jive talk n

a style of speech using black musicians’ slang and picturesque rhythmic phraseology, originally developed to accompany swing music of the 1930s and 1940s. The vocabulary and cadences of jive talk were adopted by American teenagers in the early 1950s. Jive talk was combined with bop talk to influence much of the vocabulary of the later hipsters and beatniks.

jizz-ball n American

an obnoxious, repellent, despicable person. A teenage insult based on the variant form of jissom and coined by analogy with earlier terms such as scuzz-ball.

JK phrase

‘just kidding’. The reassurance is usually written, typically online or in texting.

JLD adj

‘just like dad’ in medical shorthand, sometimes added after FLK, e.g., on a patient’s notes

joanna n British

a piano. A rhyme on the cockney pronunciation of the instrument.

Give us a tune on the old joanna.

See also Jewish typewriter/piano/pianola/joanna

Joan of Arc n Australian

a shark. A piece of native Australian rhyming slang. An alternative is Noah’s Ark.

job n

1. a crime. This widespread term occurs in expressions such as ‘pull a job’ and in specific forms such as ‘bank-job’, ‘safe-job’, etc. The word was first used in this sense in the 17th century, usually in the context of theft.

2. a person, thing or action. An allpurpose term for a contraption, specimen or piece of handiwork.

a six-cylinder job

Who’s the little blonde job by the door?

job (someone) vb

1. to hit or beat (someone) up.

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