jackeen

Definition

An arrogant lower-class person, especially in Dublin.

Etymology

From Jack + -een (“little”), from Jack being a common English name.

Example Sentences

• "A buckeen, a jackeen, a squireen, or any of the intermediate classes."
• "Jackeens loitering about the Dublin theatres."
• "To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob 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."