Spring-heeled Jack

Spring-heeled Jack is the alternative letter-case form of spring-heeled Jack.

Noun capitalized: spring-heeled Jack

spring-heeled Jack (plural spring-heeled Jacks)

(historical) A terrifying man of bizarre appearance and able to make extraordinary leaps, the subject of English folklore of the Victorian era.
- And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks and sallaballas […]1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
- Servant-girls who have just received their year's wages at Christmas will frequently profess themselves afraid to go home after dusk, because “there are so many o' these Spring-heeled Jacks about.”1887, English Dialect Society, Publications, volume 21, number 53, page 367

plural	spring-heeled Jacks

What does Spring-heeled Jack mean?: Spring-heeled Jack means a terrifying man of bizarre appearance and able to make extraordinary leaps, the subject of English folklore of the Victorian era.
What is Spring-heeled Jack the alternative letter-case form of?: Spring-heeled Jack is the alternative letter-case form of spring-heeled Jack.
What part of speech is Spring-heeled Jack?: Spring-heeled Jack is a noun.
What is the plural of Spring-heeled Jack?: The plural of Spring-heeled Jack is spring-heeled Jacks.

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