different between hackney vs jarvey

English

Etymology

From Middle English hakeney; probably from Hackney (formerly a town, now a borough of London), used for grazing horses before sale, or from Old French haquenee (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius (though some recent French sources report that the English usage predates the French).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hækni/

Noun

hackney (plural hackneys)

1. (archaic) An ordinary horse.
2. A carriage for hire or a cab.
3. A horse used to ride or drive.
4. A breed of English horse.
5. (archaic) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

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Adjective

hackney (not comparable)

1. Offered for hire.

   hackney coaches

2. (figuratively) Much used; trite; mean.

   hackney authors

   • a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, The Ghost of the old House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at Oxford.

     his accumulative and hackney tongue

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Verb

hackney (third-person singular simple present hackneys, present participle hackneying, simple past and past participle hackneyed)

1. (transitive) To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.
2. (transitive) To use as a hackney.
3. (transitive) To carry in a hackney coach.

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English

Alternative forms

• jarvie
• jarvy

Etymology

Two origins have been suggested, although there is no solid evidence for either:

• They are named after Saint Gervais.
• They are named after a coachman named Jarvis.

Noun

jarvey (plural jarvies or jarveys)

1. (dated) A hackney coach driver [17th and 18th centuries].
2. (Ireland) The driver of a jaunting car.

   • […] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.