jack of adj.
(Aus.) bored with, tired of.
 | implied in get jack of | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Sydney) 27 Jan. 5/4: I’m told [...] that the miners up Newcastle way are getting very ‘Jack’ of their Unions. | |
| Gold Stealers 41: Oh, well, Twitter’s jack of it, an’ I don’t think it’s much fun . | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 2 Oct. 4/7: And Brim’s, in London on his ‘ace,’/ Of Andrew Barr a trifle ‘jack’. | |
| Drum vi. 50: He was clearly a bore and they were jack of him. | |
| Bunch of Ratbags 140: I was jack of it. | |
| G’DAY 71: I'm jacka this. Larse time I come rownere. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 62/1: jack of rid of or weary of; eg ‘Would I like to be jack of those little twerps!’ c. 1890. | |
| Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 440: The cocky was becoming jack of this. | |
| Lingo 66: Other well-used World War II complaints still in wide use today included [...] to be jack of something, possibly everything, and a lot of (hot) cock used to describe anything felt to be nonsense. |
In phrases
(Aus.) to resent, to be bored with, to be fed up with.
| Central Qld Herald (Rocckhampton, Qld) 27 Dec. 27/4: Let him do the cooking and he’ll get jack of the work. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Apr. 22/3: Six days after this as a steady thing, and his character, among the people on that block, was bad enough to command a three-guinea screw from the Salvation Army. He got ‘jack’ of the monotonous kind of life, so he handed in his resignation and left those parts. | |
| Spats’ Fact’ry (1922) 61: I swore off half-a-dozen little lovin’ wickednesses afore I got jack of it. | |
| Yarns of Billy Borker 139: Timetable got jack of it, after that, so when the truck came out [...] he took a lift back and left me there. | |
| (con. 1930s) ‘Keep Moving’ 63: Another bloody meetin’ [...] I’m gettin’ jack of meetin’s. | |
| Chopper 4 111: Listen Ron, I am getting a bit jack of this [i.e. petition-writing]. |