slang. [Cf. bumpkin, and joss dial. to bump.] A country bumpkin.

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1811.  Lex. Bal., s.v., The dropcove maced the Joskin of twenty quid; The ring dropper cheated the countryman of twenty guineas.

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1814.  Morning Post, 4 July, 3/3. A grotesque figure of a country joskin, entered with rapid step and gigantic strides.

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1819.  Lamb, Lett. to Manning (1886), II. 53. I hate the Joskins.

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1885.  Fortn. in Waggonette, 38. In nine cases out of ten a country joskin was much more useful and informing than even the great Bacon’s maps.

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1883.  [J. Farrell], Her Story, in The Bulletin, I. No. 9, 14 July, 4/2.

          And that the best thing she could do
Was to get back to Kilmore, and marry
  The joskin that followed the plough.

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