jackeen

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From Jack +‎ -een (“little”), from Jack being a common English name.

jackeen (plural jackeens)

(Ireland, derogatory) An arrogant lower-class person, especially in Dublin.
- 1840, Fraser's Magazine, volume 22, page 320:
  A buckeen, a jackeen, a squireen, or any of the intermediate classes.
- 1892 July, Quarterly Review, page 138:
  Jackeens loitering about the Dublin theatres.
- 1897 September, Sir C.G. Duffy, Quarterly Review, page 451:
  In manner and bearing he is a superb Jackeen.
(Ireland, derogatory, ethnic slur) Synonym of Dubliner, especially (obsolete or historical) an excessively Anglophile one.
- 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 105:
  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 Pickakafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.

“jackeen, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.