Posted by buickanddeere on August 07, 2008 at 10:20:25 from (192.75.48.150):
Had never heard of the term and wondered why some people became all insulted and hostile when referred to being such.
Jackleg, adj., is a Southern adjective meaning inept, unprofessional, or dishonest. It is usually applied to members of a particular occupation. You do not, for example, want to take your car to a jackleg mechanic. The term dates to 1837. It may be from an older term, a jackleg knife or jackknife, perhaps first applied to carpenters who used jackleg knives. Jackleg knife dates to 1786. http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/more/886/
Jack-leg: Self taught, especially in reference to automobile mechanics and clergy-men. "He"s just a jack-leg preacher, but he sure knows how to put out the hellfire and brimstone." http://www.gagirl.com/southern/south.html
jackleg JAK-leg (adjective) 1 a : lacking skill or training : amateur *b : characterized by unscrupulousness, dishonesty, or lack of professional standards 2 : makeshift Example sentence: There we were, stuck in Nowheresville with a jackleg mechanic who told us he"d fix the car but we"d have to wait a few days unless we wanted to pay him double. Did you know? Don"t call someone a "jackleg" unless you"re prepared for them to get angry with you. Throughout its more than 150-year- old history in English, "jackleg" has most often been used as a term of contempt and deprecation, particularly in reference to lawyers and preachers. Its form echoes that of the similar "blackleg," an older term for a cheating gambler or a worker opposed to union policies. Etymologists know that "blackleg" appeared over a hundred years before "jackleg," but they don"t have any verifiable theories about the origin of the earlier term. http://osdir.com/ml/culture.language.word-of-the-day/2002-10/msg00021.html
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