Jackeen is a mildly
pejorative term for someone from
Dublin,
Ireland. The word has been defined as A drunken, dissolute fellow by Webster in 1913.An incorrect but common suggested origin of the word comes from
John Bull, the personification of
England. Due to its proximity and long historical ties to
Britain, Irish people outside of
the Pale thought that Dubliners wanted to be English. John Bull became Jack Bull and, using the
Irish suffix -ín meaning small, Jack became Jackeen. Therefore, Jackeen literally means Little Jack or "
minibrit".
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