jock

jock
   In Britain, especially, this is often a generic nickname for a Scotsman. The word represents a Scottish and northern English pronunciation of ‘Jack’, the once-common man’s name, though there is no evidence that it was ever especially common in Scotland. Typical friendly use of ‘Jock’ in this sense occurs in Doctor at Sea, by Richard Gordon. When a woman calls a professional American football player ‘you stupid jock’ in Only a Came, by Robert Daley, the meaning is quite different. Earlier in the novel is the comment:
   There was also a third type of girl on campus who, because of a kind of reverse snobbery, refused to date any student with an athletic scholarship. They called the athletes ‘jocks’, which is not a pleasant word to know some girl has called you.
   This slang meaning of jock is now extended to female athletes and sportswomen, though it derives from ‘jockstrap’. That word derives in turn from an earlier slang meaning of ‘jock’, an abbreviation of ‘jockum’ or ‘jockam’, ‘penis’.

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