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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