subs. (old).—A lawyer. For synonyms, see GREENBAG. AUTEM-JET = a parson.

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  1725.  A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.

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  Verb. (old).—To strut; to walk pompously. See JETTER.

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  1537.  Thersites [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, i. 430]. The knave that here erewhile did JET.

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  1562–3.  Jack Juggler [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ii. 117].

        She simpereth, she pranketh, and JETTETH without fail,
As a peacock that hath spread and showeth her gay tail.

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  1594.  Look About You, Sc. 17 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, vii. 436].

          Skink.  Thus JETS my noble Skink along the streets,
To whom each bonnet vails, and all knees bend.

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  1602.  SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ii. 5. How he JETS under his advanced plumes.

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  1640.  RAWLINS, The Rebellion, ii., 1 (DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 35). The proudest creatures; you shall have them JET it with an undaunted boldness.

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  TO JET ONE’S JUICE, verb. phr. (venery).—To COME (q.v.); to experience the sexual spasm.

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