Jackeen

British  

/ dʒæˈkiːn /

noun

1. a slick self-assertive lower-class Dubliner

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Etymology

Origin of Jackeen

C19: from proper name Jack + -een , Irish diminutive suffix, from Irish Gaelic -ín

Example Sentences

Patsy, an Irish maid, and Tom, a Dublin jackeen, work for an arty lady named Willa McCord, who makes stained-glass windows.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We'll get Home Rule when a pair o' white wings sprouts out o' me shoulders an' I fly away like a blackbird," said an old market woman with great emphasis; and a Dublin jackeen, piloting an American over the city, said: "This, Sorr, is College Green, an' that, Sorr, is Thrinity College, an' that Sorr,"—here he pointed to the grand pile opposite the College—"that Sorr, is the grate buildin' in which the Irish Parliament is not going to meet!"

From Project Gutenberg

The fear of being turned out made him for the nonce refrain from that vengeance of abuse which his education as a Dublin Jackeen well qualified him to inflict.

From Project Gutenberg

To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale—that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickackafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.

From Project Gutenberg

Among the letters there is a budget of loose leaves from Salemina's diary, Salemina, who is now Mrs. Gerald La Touche, wife of Professor La Touche, of Trinity College, Dublin, and stepmother to Jackeen and Broona La Touche.

From Project Gutenberg