Noun: jacklight
| Singular | jacklight |
| Plural | jacklights |
Sample Sentences
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It was a long, low roadster, with a jacklight. [1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 19:]
Nouns inflected like jacklight
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. * jack + light. Probably from jack (“a male servant of any rank”), later associated with a boy servant or any boy, and later still with a knave: a rogue, thief, or deceitful man.
2. * Possibly also related to Spanish jaque (“a bully”). See: Spanish Nouns '
jaque'.