Jack Nasty

noun

A valet or pageboy.

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Meanings

nounJack Nasty (plural Jack Nastys or Jack Nasties)

plural Jack Nastys · plural Jack Nasties

  1. datedA valet or pageboy.

    Tom and his younger brothers, as they grew up, went on playing with the village boys, without the idea of equality or inequality […] ever entering their heads; as it doesn't till it's put there by Jack Nastys or fine ladies' maids.

    1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days
  2. datedA contemptible or unpleasant person.

    Don't lie, don't try to fool me, Ennis. I know what it means. Jack Twist? Jack Nasty.

    1997, Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain, page 35

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
jack nasty-face
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APA

Jack Nasty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jack%20Nasty

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