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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

JACKEEN

JACKEEN Jack *een ", n.

 

Defn: A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland ] S. C. Hall.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

jackeen

jackeen |dʒaˈkiːn | ▶noun Irish, chiefly derogatory a city-dweller, especially a Dubliner. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: diminutive of the pet name Jack (see jack 1, -een ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

jackeen

jackeen |dʒaˈkiːn | ▶noun Irish, chiefly derogatory a city-dweller, especially a Dubliner. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: diminutive of the pet name Jack (see jack 1, -een ).