[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
Jack IV, 112, (Child #207 A) 4; 113, 5: insolent fellow.
iacke III, 342, (Child #167 A) 64: (here) coat of mail, cf. 58, 59, 60. soldans iack, III, 422, (Child #177 A) 75. An ordinary soldier's jack (III, 440, (Child #179 A) 18; 465 f., 33, 42, 49; IV, 147, (Child #211 A) 41) consisted of two folds of stout canvas, or some quilted material, with small pieces of metal enclosed. Fairholt. Old Robin, II, 241, (Child #80 A) 21, puts a silke cote on his backe was thirteen inches folde.
jail-house V, 300, 16: jail.
jamp pret. of jump, II, 121, (Child #65 F) (Child #65 G) 21: jumped.
iapis III, 59, (Child #117 A) 63: japes, jests, waggery, trifling.
jauel V, 81, (Child #273 app) 11: a term of abuse, good-for-nothing, idle fellow. Prompt. Parvulorum, gerro. "He called the fellow ribbalde, villaine, iauel, backbiter, sclaunderer, and the childe of perdition." Utopia, Arber, p. 53.
jaw, jawe I, 127, (Child #10 B) 10; 128, 8; II, 21, (Child #58 A) (Child #58 B) 8; 24, 11; 29, 10-12: wave.
jawing jawing wave, II, 223, F (Child #76 F) 7; IV, 472, 16: surging.
jawing n., IV, 462, 24: surging.
jee I, 389, (Child #42 C) 7; IV, 476, 5: move, stir.
jelly (jolly), I, 69, (Child #5 A) 51; 298, 2; 452, 10; II, 403, (Child #100 F) (Child #100 G) 5; IV, 413, (Child #254 B) 20: handsome, pleasant, jovial. Jamieson: "upright, worthy, excellent in its kind."
ietted, III, 199, (Child #145 A) 19; V, 86, (Child #273 app) 30: moved in state or with pride.
jimp, gimp, jump adj., I, 330, (Child #38 A) (Child #38 B) 8; 333, 6; II, 216, 18, 20; 217, 1, 3; 221, 1, 3; 225, J 1; IV, 212, (Child #219 A) 1; 272, 2: slender, slim.
jimp adv., II, 74, D (Child #62 D) 3: tightly, so as to make slender.
jo II, 103, (Child #64 A) 5: sweetheart.
jobbing (of faces), III, 219, (Child #150 A) 14: billing (like doves).
jobbing at I, 104 b, (Child #7 F) 10: jogging. The at is difficult. The old prefix means off, away, but is not separable.
Jock Sheep, John Sheephead II, 480 a; IV, 290, 23: a man deficient in virility (?). V, 206 a, 9: simpleton, of one who has been stultified or outwitted.
iollye III, 278, (Child #158 A) (Child #158 B) 32: should probably be iollyte. See enter plea.
joukd V, 9, (Child #266 A) 12: bent forward. See juks.
jow (of bell), II, 277, A (Child #84 A) 8: stroke.
juks V, 110, (Child #279 A) 5: bows, obeisances. See joukd.
jule jewel.
jully-flowers gilly-flowers.
jumbling V, 102 B (Child #276 B) 13: mudding, fouling.
jumly IV, 182, F (Child #215 F) 9: turbid.
jump V, 267 b, 5: jimp, slender.
jumpted IV, 519 a, 3: jumped.
justle III, 280, (Child #158 B) 26: joust, tilt.
justler III, 280, (Child #158 B) 31, 32: jouster, tilter.
justling III, 279, (Child #158 B) 12, 14, 16: jousting.
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