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Jockeyship   Listen
noun
Jockeyship  n.  The art, character, or position, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey. "Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship." "Where can at last his jockeyship retire?"





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"Jockeyship" Quotes from Famous Books



... the stable-yard to view personally the condition of his favourite, and I followed to offer my counsel as a jockey. Don't laugh, Alan, sure I have jockeyship enough to assist ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... a man of business to parade his doubts of success before a client who paid so liberally, so long as her hobby was ridden after her own fashion. Mr. Madgin's chief aim in life was to ride other people's hobbies, and be well paid for his jockeyship. ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 • Various


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