"jack-boy" meaning in English

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      "form": "jack-boys",
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      "expansion": "jack-boy (plural jack-boys)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "jack boy"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856, Philip Massinger, William Gifford, The Plays of Philip Massinger, page 510",
          "text": "Come you a wooing, And I alive and lusty? you shall find An alteration, jack-boys; I have a spirit yet (An I could match my hair to't, there's the fault), And can do offices of youth yet lightly;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, An Old Blue, “Reminiscences of Christ's Hospital”, in Some More Gleanings, page 45",
          "text": "The news soon spread from boy to boy and from ward to ward ; and there was an extraordinary call upon the services of the jack-boys, whose utmost exertions were scarcely equal to the demand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Darrell Figgis, Æ (George W. Russell): A Study of a Man and a Nation, page 131",
          "text": "He was lower than the jack-boys and hirelings of the tuath, being generally a prisoner taken in war or an outlaw from some other tuath.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of jack boy"
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  "word": "jack-boy"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jack-boys",
      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "jack-boy (plural jack-boys)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "word": "jack boy"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856, Philip Massinger, William Gifford, The Plays of Philip Massinger, page 510",
          "text": "Come you a wooing, And I alive and lusty? you shall find An alteration, jack-boys; I have a spirit yet (An I could match my hair to't, there's the fault), And can do offices of youth yet lightly;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, An Old Blue, “Reminiscences of Christ's Hospital”, in Some More Gleanings, page 45",
          "text": "The news soon spread from boy to boy and from ward to ward ; and there was an extraordinary call upon the services of the jack-boys, whose utmost exertions were scarcely equal to the demand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Darrell Figgis, Æ (George W. Russell): A Study of a Man and a Nation, page 131",
          "text": "He was lower than the jack-boys and hirelings of the tuath, being generally a prisoner taken in war or an outlaw from some other tuath.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of jack boy"
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