J -ja
See Ouija. Long-tailed Jaeger or Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus), Robbins, Birds of North America, Golden, 1966
jaeger, jäger n.
from Jäger "hunter": one of the bird family Stercorariidae, which harasses other sea birds and steals their prey, called skuas in England and Raubmöwen ("predatory gulls") in German. Jaeger is the correct spelling of Jäger when one cannot represent the umlaut on the particular system one is using.
  • "Gulls and jaegers are best known for their habit of forcing smaller birds to drop their food, but C. M. Arnold observed a House Sparrow following a robin about and snatching earthworms before it could carry them off to waiting youngsters (Bent)." Roland H. Wauer, The American Robin, 1999, p. 75.
  • "Jaegers and skuas are most often seen robbing other seabirds of fish." Chandler S. Robbins et al., Birds of North America, 1966, p. 130.
  • "Where the Churchill River enters the immense expanse of Hudson Bay, you will see arctic terns and parasitic jaegers feeding on the fish stirred up by pods of beluga whales that congregate here." Tim Fitzharris, Wild Wings: An Introduction to Birdwatching, 1992, p. 178.
  • "Other offshore species include Pomarine Jaegers, Black-legged Kittiwakes, and Red Phalaropes." Laird Henkel, "Birding Hotspots: Monterey Bay, California", Birder's World, Dec. 1997, p. 59.
jäger, jaeger, Jaeger, yager n.
from Jäger "hunter": a hunter; a rifleman in the old Austrian and German armies.
  • "In contrast, he was also a graduate of the 27th Jaeger Battalion in 1915, the War Academy in France, and had earlier distinguished himself in the Rautu battles of the Independence War." Eloise Engle & Lauri Paananen, The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland 1939-1940, 1973, p. 33.
  • "I shouldn't have minded it so much in any other country, but I thought men who wore Jaeger underclothing and women's petticoats for a national costume might have excused so slight an eccentricity as knickerbockers." Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline.
  • "But my punishment was swift to follow, for within the hour the bell rang imperiously twice, and there was Dr. Theobald on our mat; in a yellow Jaeger suit, with a chin as yellow jutting over the flaps that he had turned up to hide his pyjamas." Ernest William Hornung, Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman, 1901.
  • "The area thus costumed ceased at the waist, leaving a Jaeger-like and unmedieval gap thence to the tops of the stockings." Booth Parkington, Penrod, 1914.
  • "One particular body of the subsidiary troops were included in this arrangement, and the Hessian yagers were transformed into a corps of heavy and inactive horse." James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground.
Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt pseudosclerosis, Jakob's pseudosclerosis n.
See Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
New!Junker, Junkerdom, Junkerthum, Junkerism n.
from Junker: (a member of) the East Prussian aristocracy, noted for its harsh, militaristic attitudes [German < Old High German juncherr, juncherro < junc "young" + herro "honorable"; see also Herrenvolk]. This entry suggested by Christiane Leißner.
  • "Why, we know the very names of the prelates with whom the master-cynic of the Junkerthum made his 'deal.'", Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation, 1918, p. 153.
  • "It was Miles Bjornstam who said, 'I can't figure it out. I'm opposed to wars, but still, seems like Germany has got to be licked because them Junkers stands in the way of progress.'", Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 1920, p. 239.
  • "An upstart and a junker, like so many others!", Anton Checkov, The Party, 1917, p. 25.
  • "There was not a word about the marriage, however, but the story was adorned with generals, colonels and kammer-junkers, while Zverkov almost took the lead among them.", Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, p. 108. Kammer means "chamber".
  • "'He was a light-headed fellow,' said Johann Helm, 'but he knew how to get the confidence of the old Junkers.'", Bayard Taylor, Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home, 1872, p. 167.
  • "Only the Turkish mind, however---and possibly the Junker---could regard it as furnishing an excuse for the terrible barbarities that now took place.", Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, 1918.
  • "'I assure you that our most pan-Germanic Junker is a sucking dove in his feelings towards England as compared with a real bitter Irish-American.'", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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