Meaning of jackeen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An arrogant lower-class person, especially in Dublin.
   Ireland, derogatory
2. Alternative letter-case form of jackeen.
   alt-of
3. Synonym of Dubliner, especially (obsolete or historical) an excessively Anglophile one.
   Ireland, derogatory, ethnic, slur

Examples

“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.”

“In manner and bearing he is a superb Jackeen.”

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