jackeen

plural jackeens · alternative Jackeen

1. IrelandderogatoryAn arrogant lower-class person, especially in Dublin; (hence), a Dubliner, especially as contrasted with someone from a rural area.First known use 19th c.

   Jackeens loitering about the Dublin theatres.

   1892 July, Quarterly Review, page 138

   2 more examples

   A buckeen, a jackeen, a squireen, or any of the intermediate classes.

   1840, Fraser's Magazine, volume 22, page 320

   Mr Dedalus told the same tale, that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickakafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.

   1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 105

plural Jackeens

1. Alternative letter-case form of jackeen.

   In manner and bearing he is a superb Jackeen.

   1897 September, Sir C.G. Duffy, Quarterly Review, page 451