jackey

English

Noun

jackey (uncountable)

1. (slang, obsolete, UK) Gin (the drink).
   • 1811, William Mudford, The Life and Adventures of Paul Plaintive, Esq., page 31:

     Mrs. Jenkins and Sukey […] were anxious to have a privy conference over a glass of jackey, about the singular absence of Ezekiel.

   • 1823, The Rambler's Magazine (page 354)

     [A] glass of Jackey restored him to his senses.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary