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whiskey jack

gray jay

Etymology: earlier whisky-john, itself altered (as if < whisky + John) < Cree dial. wiiskachaan, lit., blacksmith (so named from its coloring)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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