subs. (American thieves’).—1.  A hypocrite.—MATSELL (1859).

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  2.  (common).—See JOE, subs. sense 1.

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  3.  (Australian).—See quot. 1887.

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  1865.  H. KINGSLEY, The Hillyars and the Burtons, lvii. He had met a grey doe kangaroo with her little ones…. Then the little one, the JOEY, had opened its mother’s pouch and got in.

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  1887.  Australian Colloquialisms in All the Year Round, 30 July, p. 67. JOEY is a familiar name for anything young or small, and is applied indifferently to a puppy, or a kitten, or a child, while a WOOD-AND-WATER-JOEY is a hanger about hotels, and a doer of odd jobs.

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  4.  (nautical).—A marine.

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  5.  (theatrical).—A clown. [From JOEY Grimaldi.]

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  Intj. (Australian).—See quot. Also JO!

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  1867.  The Victorian Song-book, ‘Where’s your License,’ p. 6.

        Diggers ain’t often caught on the hop,
The little word JOE!
Which all of you know,
Is a signal the traps are quite near.

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