Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to jockey
Participle: jockeyed
Gerund: jockeying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | jockey |
| you | jockey |
| he;she;it | jockeys |
| we | jockey |
| you | jockey |
| they | jockey |
Perfect
| I | have jockeyed |
| you | have jockeyed |
| he;she;it | has jockeyed |
| we | have jockeyed |
| you | have jockeyed |
| they | have jockeyed |
Past
| I | jockeyed |
| you | jockeyed |
| he;she;it | jockeyed |
| we | jockeyed |
| you | jockeyed |
| they | jockeyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had jockeyed |
| you | had jockeyed |
| he;she;it | had jockeyed |
| we | had jockeyed |
| you | had jockeyed |
| they | had jockeyed |
Future
| I | will jockey |
| you | will jockey |
| he;she;it | will jockey |
| we | will jockey |
| you | will jockey |
| they | will jockey |
Future Perfect
| I | will have jockeyed |
| you | will have jockeyed |
| he;she;it | will have jockeyed |
| we | will have jockeyed |
| you | will have jockeyed |
| they | will have jockeyed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | jockey |
| you | jockey |
| he;she;it | jockey |
| we | jockey |
| you | jockey |
| they | jockey |
Perfect
| I | have jockeyed |
| you | have jockeyed |
| he;she;it | have jockeyed |
| we | have jockeyed |
| you | have jockeyed |
| they | have jockeyed |
Imperfect
| I | jockeyed |
| you | jockeyed |
| he;she;it | jockeyed |
| we | jockeyed |
| you | jockeyed |
| they | jockeyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had jockeyed |
| you | had jockeyed |
| he;she;it | had jockeyed |
| we | had jockeyed |
| you | had jockeyed |
| they | had jockeyed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would jockey |
| you | would jockey |
| he;she;it | would jockey |
| we | would jockey |
| you | would jockey |
| they | would jockey |
Perfect
| I | would have jockeyed |
| you | would have jockeyed |
| he;she;it | would have jockeyed |
| we | would have jockeyed |
| you | would have jockeyed |
| they | would have jockeyed |
Imperative
| you | jockey |
| we | Let's jockey |
| you | jockey |
Verbs conjugated like 'jockey'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'jockey'
cocker,
docket,
hotkey,
jacket,
jock,
joke,
jolley,
lackey,
mickey,
monkey,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Middle English Jackin
3. Middle English Jankyn
4. English Jack
5. English Jock
6. English jock
7. Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-
8. Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī
9. Old English -iġ
10. Middle English -y
11. English -y
12. ▲
13. English -y
14. English -ie
15. English -ey
16. English jockey
17. The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey.
18. In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
Sample Sentences
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They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
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I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.
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They're all jockeying for promotion.
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This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about. [1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:]
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I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.