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Jack Nasty

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Jack Nasty (plural Jack Nastys or Jack Nasties)

  1. (nautical, slang, obsolete) Synonym of Jack Nasty-Face (a sailor)
    • 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.