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Jackeen

Jack·een [ ja kn ] (plural Jack·eens)


noun 
Definition:
 
Ireland educated Dubliner: somebody from Dublin who is thought of as being well-read, confident, and particularly proud of his or her working- or lower-class origins, or sometimes, by non-Dubliners, as being smugly clever ( sometimes offensive )

[Mid-19th century. Diminutive of the name Jack]
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