1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. ii. p. 59:
"The native word <i>jirrand</i> (afraid) has become in some measure an adopted child, and may probably puzzle our future Johnsons with its <i>unde derivatur</i>."
1889. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 316:
"When I saw the mob there was I didn't see so much to be jerran about, as it was fifty to one in favour of any one that was wanted."
<hw>Jo-Jo</hw>, <i>n</i>. name used by Melbourne larrikins for a man with a good deal of hair on his face. So called from a hairy-faced Russian "<i>dog man</i>" exhibited in Melbourne about 1880, who was advertised by that name.
<hw>Job's</hw> Tears. The seeds of <i>Coix lachryma</i>, which are used for necklace-making by the native tribes on the Cape York peninsula, are there called <i>Job's tears</i>.
<hw>Joe, Joe-Joe, Joey</hw>, interjection, then a <i>verb</i>, now obsolete. Explained in quotations.
1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 400:
"The well-known cry of `Joe! Joe!'—a cry which means one of the myrmidons of Charley Joe, as they familiarly style Mr. [Charles Joseph] La Trobe,—a cry which on all the diggings resounds on all sides on the appearance of any of the hated officials."
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 135: