jockey

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• UK: /ˈd͡ʒɒki/
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• US: /ˈd͡ʒɑki/
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• rhymes with -ɒki
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• homophone: jocky
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• CMU ARPABET: JH AA1 K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Middle English Jackin Middle English Jankyn English Jack English Jock English jock Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y ▲ English -y English -ie English -ey English jockey The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey. In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: joquei — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Catalan: genet — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Chinese Mandarin: 騎師 /骑师 (qíshī) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Chinese Mandarin: 騎手 /骑手 (qíshǒu) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Czech: žokej — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Danish: jockey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Esperanto: rajdisto — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Esperanto: ĵokeo — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Finnish: kilparatsastaja — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Finnish: laukkaratsastaja jockey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• French: jockey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Georgian: ჟოკეი (žoḳei) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• German: Jockey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Hungarian: zsoké — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Ido: jokeo — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Indonesian: joki — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Irish: eachaí — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Irish: jacaí — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Irish: marcach — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Italian: jockey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Japanese: 騎手 (kishu) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Korean: 기수 (gisu) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Macedonian: џоке́ј (džokéj) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Manx: markiagh — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Māori: tioke — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Marathi: जॉकी (jŏkī) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Norwegian Bokmål: jockey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jockey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Polish: dżokej — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Portuguese: jóquei — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Portuguese: ginete — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Romanian: jocheu — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Russian: жоке́й (žokéj) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Scottish Gaelic: marcach — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Slovak: džokej — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Slovak: džokejka — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Spanish: jinete — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Spanish: yóquey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Spanish: yoqui — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Swedish: kapplöpningsryttare — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Swedish: jockey — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Tagalog: hinete — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Thai: นักขี่ม้าแข่ง (nák-kìi-máa-kɛ̀ɛng) — one who rides racehorses competitively
• Turkish: jokey — one who rides racehorses competitively