or jazey, subs. (old).—1. A worsted wig. COVE WITH A JAZEY = judge.
1789. G. PARKER, Life’s Painter, 172. Wig, JASEY.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘Jerry Jarvis’s Wig.’ With an enfrenzied grasp he tore the JASEY from his head. Ibid., ‘Barney Maguire’s Account of the Coronation.’ All jool’s from his JASEY to his di’mond boots.
1841. Punch, i. 208.
| If you only see his big cock’d hat, | |
| Stuck up on the top of his JAZY. |
1842. LEVER, Jack Hinton, iii. The head would have been bald but for a scanty wig, technically called a JASY, which shrunk by time, merely occupied the apex of the scalp.
1869. THACKERAY, Lyra Hibernica, ‘Molony’s Lament.’
| When Spring, with its buds and its daisies, | |
| Comes out in her beauty and bloom, | |
| Thim tu’ll never think of new JAISIES. |
1895. Sporting Tunes, No. 1653, p. 9. There is nothing to be ashamed of in wearing a JASEY.
2. (American thieves’).—A man with an enormous quantity of hair upon his head and face.—MATSELL (1859).
