Obs. [Conjectured by Prof. Skeat to be an adv. = ‘Down here,’ repr. an OF. *jos-ça, for the actual OF. ça jus. But it may be a sb. (in vocative) or vb. (in imper.).]
c. 1386. Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 181. Keepe, keepe, stand, stand, Iossa warderere, Ga whistle thou and I shal kepe hym heere.
