Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The letter j.
- noun Any of various birds of several genera in the family Corvidae, usually brightly colored and often having a loud, harsh call.
- noun An overly talkative person; a chatterbox.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name of the letter j. It is rarely written out, the symbol j being used instead.
- noun Any bird of the subfamily Garrulinæ; specifically, Garrulus glandarius, a common European bird, about 13 inches long, of a gray color tinged with reddish, varied with black, white, and blue, and having the head crested.
- noun A loud, flashy woman.
- noun In actors' slang, an amateur or a poor actor.
- noun A general term of contempt applied to a stupid person: as, an audience at jays.
- noun In angling, a variety of artificial fly dressed with blue jay feathers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genera of the family
Corvidae . They are allied to the crows, but are smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually have a crest. - noun (Zoöl.) any one several species of Asiatic singing birds, of the genera Garrulax, Grammatoptila, and related genera of the family
Crateropodidæ .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The name of the
Latin script letterJ /j . - noun Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family
Corvidae , includingGarrulus ,Cyanocitta , allied to thecrows , but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, usually having a crest, and often noisy. - noun Other birds of similar appearance and behavior.
- noun archaic A dull or ignorant person. It survives today in the term
jaywalking . - noun slang A
marijuana cigarette; ajoint .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)
- noun crested largely blue bird
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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N again jay is not hittin her because she a strong blak women that can have any man why be with an abusive one and besides her father wouldnt have it
Kardashian Beyonce Spoof [Kim, Kourtney, Khloe Channel Beyonce] 2007
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Actually, the bikies were wedding guests, but a jay is a jay apparently.
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If another jay is around, each becomes much less discriminating and just grabs and dashes.
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That last picture makes me very uncomfortable … like her v-jay is going to devour us all, ala American G-ds – yowza! jus Says:
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Yes | No | Report from jbird wrote 37 weeks 4 days ago jay is right.
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Yes | No | Report from jbird wrote 37 weeks 4 days ago jay is right.
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My poor va-jay-jay is wincing in agony for yours. on April 17, 2008 at 8: 32 am | Reply Deutlich
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The tufted jay is one of the harder birds to find in its native habitat in Mexico, but one truly worth the effort that is required.
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The tufted jay is one of the harder birds to find in its native habitat in Mexico, but one truly worth the effort that is required.
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The tufted jay is one of the harder birds to find in its native habitat in Mexico, but one truly worth the effort that is required.
bilby commented on the word jay
Kiss me, sweet : the wary lover
Can your favors keep, and cover,
When the common courting jay
All your bounties will betray.
-Ben Jonson, 'To The Same'.
July 28, 2009
MaryW commented on the word jay
Joseph Stromberg, The Forgotten History of How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” Vox (Nov. 4, 2015)See Peter Jensen Brown, Jaywalkers and Jayhawkers - a Pedestrian History and Etymology of "Jaywalking", Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog (Nov. 24, 2014)
August 27, 2018