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jacky

/ˈd͡ʒæki/

jacky noun: a sailor.

Noun (1)

jacky (countable and uncountable, plural jackies)

  1. (countable, derogatory, slang) A sailor.
    • Up and down that street on a bright Saturday afternoon may be seen our Middle Western jackies chumming with the British sailors and Tommies, or flirting with the Irish girls, or gazing through the little panes of the show-windows […]1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time
  2. (UK, archaic, dialectal) English gin.
    • I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Jacky

Jacky

  1. A nickname used instead of the male given name Jack, Jacques (and its cognates) or John.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline.

Noun (2) capitalized: Jacky

Jacky (plural Jackies)

  1. (Australia, ethnic, offensive, slur) An Aboriginal.
    Synonyms:
    abo, boong

jacky meaning in Bengali

jacky in Bengali

একজন অ্যাবোরিজিনাল, আদিবাসী

Synonyms of jacky

Forms of jacky

Noun
pluraljackies
pluralJackies
Proper noun
alternative formJackey
alternative formJackie
alternative formJacqui

Origin of jacky

From Jack + -y.

Words formed from jacky

Phrases with jacky

Questions about jacky

What does jacky mean?
Jacky means a sailor.
What is jacky in Bengali?
Jacky in Bengali is একজন অ্যাবোরিজিনাল, আদিবাসী. See Jacky meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is jacky?
Jacky can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jacky?
Jacky is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒæki/.
What is the plural of jacky?
The plural of jacky is jackies.

Words near jacky in the dictionary

  1. jackwads
  2. jackwagon
  3. jackwagons
  4. jackwood
  5. jackwoods
  6. jacky
  7. Jacky Bulbin Flat
  8. jacky dragon
  9. jacky dragons
  10. Jacky Hanger
  11. Jacky Hangers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jacky (page history and authors); Jacky (page history and authors); Jacky (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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