Jack Nasty

English

Noun

Jack Nasty (plural Jack Nastys or Jack Nasties)

  1. (dated) A valet or pageboy.
    • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
      Tom and his younger brothers, as they grew up, went on playing with the village boys, without the idea of equality or inequality […] ever entering their heads; as it doesn't till it's put there by Jack Nastys or fine ladies' maids.
  2. (dated) A contemptible or unpleasant person.
    • 1997, Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain‎[1], page 35:
      Don't lie, don't try to fool me, Ennis. I know what it means. Jack Twist? Jack Nasty.
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