jockey
意味
- 競馬の騎手,ジョッキー
- (競馬で)〈馬〉に騎手として乗る
- 〈人・車など〉をじょうずに操縦する;(…に)…を操縦して入れる《+名+into+名》,(…から)…を操縦して出す(取り上げる)《+名+out of+名》
- (有利な地位・立場などを)策略を用いて得ようとする《+for+名》
- 騎手をつとめる
例文
He is out and away the best jockey.
彼は抜群の騎手だ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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. Equivalent to jock + -ey. 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.