ngleat of Kooralbyn,' c. iv. p. 30:

"The Premier hailed a passing jingle."

[This was in Brisbane.]

<hw>Jinkers</hw>, <i>n</i>. a contrivance much used in the bush
for moving heavy logs and trunks of trees. It consists of two
pairs of wheels, with their axle-trees joined by a long beam,
under which the trunks are suspended by chains. Its structure
is varied in town for moving wooden houses. Called in England
a "whim."

1894. `The Argus,' July 7, p. 8, col. 4:

"A rather novel spectacle was to be seen to-day on the Ballan
road in the shape of a five-roomed cottage on jinkers. . . .
Mr. Scottney, carrier of Fitzroy, on whose jinkers the removal
is being made . . ."

Jirrand, <i>adj</i>. an aboriginal word in the dialect of
Botany Bay, signifying "afraid." Ridley, in his vocabulary,
spells it jerron, and there are other spellings.

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol.
ii. p. 59:

"The native word <i>jirrand</i> (afraid) has become in some
measure an adopted child, and may probably puzzle our future
Johnsons with its <i>unde derivatur</i>."

1889. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 316:

"When I saw the mob there was I didn't see so much to be jerran
about, as it was fifty to one in favour of any one that was
wanted."

<hw>Jo-Jo</hw>, <i>n</i>. name used by Melbourne larrikins for
a man with a good deal of hair on his face. So called from a
hairy-faced Russian "<i>dog man</i>" exhibited in Melbourne
about 1880, who was advertised by that name.

<hw>Job's</hw> Tears. The seeds of <i>Coix lachryma</i>, which
are used for necklace-making by the native tribes on the Cape
York peninsula, are there called <i>Job's tears</i>.

<hw>Joe, Joe-Joe, Joey</hw>, interjection, then a <i>verb</i>,
now obsolete. Explained in quotations.

1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 400:

"The well-known cry of `Joe! Joe!'--a cry which means one of
the myrmidons of Charley Joe, as they familiarly style Mr.
[Charles Joseph] La Trobe,--a cry which on all the diggings
resounds on all sides on the appearance of any of the hated
officials."

1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 135:

"The cry of `Joey' would rise everywhere against them."

[Footnote]: "To `Joey' or `Joe' a person on the diggings, or
anywhere else in Australia, is to grossly insult and ridicule
him."

1863. B. A. Heywood, `Vacation Tour at the Antipodes,'
p. 165:

"In the early days of the Au