Where does “chicken jockey” come from?
chicken jockey (English) comes from English Jockey, from English Jock, from English Jack, from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, from Middle French jaque, from Middle French jacques, from French jacques — heel of the foot; heel.
chicken jockey (English): a moment during a specific movie scene in which some viewers will go berserk or act haywire, due to memetic or unexpected nature of the movie, and may cause huge mess from thrown popcorn to straight-up vandalism
Definitions
- a moment during a specific movie scene in which some viewers will go berserk or act haywire, due to memetic or unexpected nature of the movie, and may cause huge mess from thrown popcorn to straight-up vandalism
Ancestry of “chicken jockey”, step by step
chicken jockey traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Jockey
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Jockey | One who rides racehorses competitively |
| 2 | English | Jock | A Scot |
| 3 | English | Jack | A placeholder or conventional name for any man,... |
| 4 | Middle English | jakke | A padded coat, especially as light armour |
| 5 | Anglo-Norman | jacke | — |
| 6 | Middle French | jaque | — |
| 7 | Middle French | jacques | — |
| 8 | French | jacques | plural of jacque; a stupid person; a jemmy or... |
| 9 | Latin | Iacobus | Jacob; James; Saint James |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | Ἰάκωβος | — |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | Ἰακώβ | Jacob |
| 12 | Hebrew | יַעֲקֹב | Jacob |
| 13 | Hebrew | עָקֵב | heel of the foot; heel |
via English Chicken
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Chicken | A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) |
| 2 | English | -en | Denotes the past participle form when attached to... |
| 3 | Middle English | -en | Denotes the past participle form when attached to... |
| 4 | Old English | -en | mæġþ + API → mæġden; cocc + API → cycen, cicen;... |
| 5 | Old Norse | -inn | Used to create adjectives from nouns, meaning... |
| 6 | Proto-Norse | -īna- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -īnaz | -en |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHnos | Creates adjectives of materials |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -no- | adjectival suffix |