Timeline for From the horse jockey to the disc jockey
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| Jan 1, 2016 at 23:05 | comment | added | ermanen | Great question. According to OED, jockey also means a strolling minstrel or beggar; a vagabond. Sc. Obs. exc. Hist. (from 1685). | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 22:52 | answer | added | ermanen | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jan 1, 2016 at 17:43 | comment | added | Graffito | In its initial sense, "to jockey" consist in maneuvering to get an advantage or influence the course of the events. The verb then applied to horse riding gave the noun "jockey". | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 16:10 | comment | added | Barmar | I think it really is that simple. That's the most common way that words evolve variant meanings. But sometimes it's due to wordplay: after "disk jockey" became common, "desk jockey" arose because of the humorous similarity in sound. | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 16:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/682956525414035456 | ||
| Jan 1, 2016 at 15:59 | comment | added | Barmar | By the time the informal meaning arose, I doubt anyone still remembered the original meaning. By the 20th century, I think it only referred to riders in horse races. The informal meaning arose by metaphor. | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 15:08 | comment | added | Chris H | @HotLicks presumably that's related to "jockeying for position" etc. which could easily derive from horse racing. | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 13:47 | comment | added | Hot Licks | There is also the expression "jockey (something) around", which means to physically move an object, usually trying to arrange it's position relative to another object. "See if you can jockey that cart around so that it's up against this one." | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 13:39 | history | asked | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |