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jockey
A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.
==Etymology==
The word is by origin a diminutive of "jock", the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name "John," which is also used generically for "boy, or fellow" (compare "Jack", "Dick"), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's ''Richard III''. v. 3, 304.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb ''to jockey'', "to outwit", or "to do" a person out of something. The current usage which means a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
Another possible origin is the Gaelic word ''eachaidhe'', a "horseman", (pronounced ''yachey'' in late medieval times, with the ''ch'' pronounced as in German).〔Dineen's Irish-English Dictionary, 1975, page 383〕
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