A country fellow.
1639. So. Mr. Bostock, madam. Lu. Retire, and give the jay admittance.—Chapman and Shirley, ‘The Ball,’ ii. 2. (N.E.D.)
1897. I’m what they call a jay in Harvard, and Harvard don’t count if you’re a jay.—W. D. Howells, ‘Landlord at Lion’s Head,’ ch. xxiii.
1904. I acknowledge I felt like a plumb jay from the backwoods.—W. N. Harben, ‘The Georgians,’ p. 189.
