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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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JAICKET, n. Also jaickit, jaiket (Sh., Bnff., Abd., Ags., Fif., Edb., Arg., Gsw., Ayr., Dmf., Rxb. 2000s); jaikit; jaykit; jaikad (Cai.); jecket (Ork.); jeckit; checkad (Cai. 1958 Edb. John o' Groat Liter. Soc); chaikad (Cai.); Gen.Sc. forms of Eng. jacket.  [′dʒekət, ′dʒɛkət]Sc. 1893 Stevenson Catriona xix.:
Ye timmer scoun'rel, if I had a male left to my name I would have your jaicket dustit. m.Sc. 1988 William Neill Making Tracks 63:
His claes lukt bien an cosh an sneddit ticht,
jaikit an breeks steekit in Saville Raw, Gsw. 1990 John and Willy Maley From the Calton to Catalonia 37:
Hauf us hid oan Russian uniforms - no the full kit, jist a hat here, a jaicket there, the odd pair a troosers - an the Spaniards thoat the Russians hid come: ... Sc. 1994 Pete Fortune in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 154:
An ti mak maitters worse, he'd a monstroasity o a jaiket oan - auld kinna corduroy thing it wis - Edb. 1995 Irvine Welsh Marabou Stork Nightmares (1996) 157:
... a really only went back tae his place tae see this leather jaykit thit eh goat ... Dundee 1996 Matthew Fitt Pure Radge 18:
a bletherin, blusterin, drunken blellum, sae ye ur
whit a state tae git intae
voamit stens
doon
the back o yir jaiket Slk. 1999 Jules Horne in Moira Burgess and Donny O'Rourke New Writing Scotland 17: Friends and Kangaroos 59:
Anyroad, this man came up the hill. He was bigger than a dot because we could see he had a jaiket ower his shoulder, holding it with his one finger.

Comb. and phr. (1) a claw-haimmer jaiket, a swallow-tail coat; (2) a jaicket-mair cauld, a cold spell which compels the wearer to put on an extra jacket for warmth (Ags.²⁰ 1959); (3) yer jaiket's on a shaky nail, you are in a precarious position. See also shooglie s.v. shoggle v., n. I.1. (1)Gsw. 1950 H. W. Pryde McFlannel Family Affairs 71:
Does this mean that A've got tae appear noo in ma lum hat an' ma claw-haimmer jaiket?(3)m.Sc. 1998 Herald (3 Feb) 16:
"Aye, ah dae! Ah know ma jaickits [sic] oan a shaky nail, but it wisnae me, ya auld radge! It was that frigging fop, the Earl of Oxford, him and wee Frankie Bacon!"