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Jockie, Jocky, n. Also: jockey. [Dim. or pet-form of the name Jok. e.m.E. (1638– ) has jockey, jocky, jockie in other senses.] a. The man's name, representing men or common men in general. b. An itinerant minstrel or beggar, a vagrant. c. ? One with whom one is on 'first-name' terms, a familiar companion; ? a fellow-Scotsman. —a. a1598 Ferg. Prov. (S.T.S.) MS. No. 1376.
Ther was never such a sillie Jockie but he gat als sillie a Jennieb. 1683 G. Martine Reliq. Divi Andreæ (1797) 3.
They [the latter-day bards] are called by others and by themselves jockies, who go about begging and use still to recite the sluggornes of most of the true ancient surnames of Scotland 1685 Sinclair Satan's Inv. World 123.
He … turned a vagrant fellow, like a jockie, gaining meal, flesh and money by his charms 1698 Fletcher Polit. Wks. (1737) 149.
And for example and terror, three or four hundred of the most notorious of these villains which we call jockys might be presented by the government to … Venice to serve in their galleysc. 1667 Insh Colonial Schemes 230.
My humble service to your lordship, who for an old jockey, if not for country sake, will assist me in a request [etc.]