Also jasy, jazey, jazy, Sc. jeezy. [According to Forby = Jersey: see quot. 1825.] A humorous or familiar name for a wig, esp. one made of worsted.

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c. 1780.  G. Parker, Life’s Painter, 157. Wig, Jasey.

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1797.  Mrs. M. Robinson, Walsingham, IV. 8. Dash my jasey, if I wasn’t threatened with the pillory for drawing caricatures.

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1824.  Scott, Redgauntlet, ch. xx. The old gentleman in the flaxen jazy.

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Jasey, a contemptuous name for a wig, or even a bushy head of hair, as if the one were actually, and the other apparently, made of Jersey yarn, of which this is the common corrupt pronunciation.

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1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, lxii. A little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders.

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1899.  Besant, Orange Girl, II. xviii. 335. He wore the old jasey with a broken pigtail.

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  Hence Jaseyed a., wigged.

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1883.  L. Wingfield, A. Rowe, I. ix. 203. Was ever jaseyed person so perfidious?

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