Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a coachman.

1759		J. Townley High Life Below Stairs I iii: [Scene, The Servant’s Hall] (Kingston and Coachman, drunk and sleepy) kingst.: Somebody knocks—Coachy go—go to the Door, Coachy.
1790		Southey letter to Thomas Lamb in Letters (1856) I 1: The name of Tom Lamb made the coachee my friend.
1802		Sporting Mag. Jan. XIX 189/2: No; Coachy remembered nothing of that: ‘and he would not be bilked by e’er a gemman in England.’.
c.1805		‘The Little Farthing Rush-light’ in Jovial Songster 94: Cook, coachee, men and maids, very near all in buff.
1819		Beppo in London lxxii: Poor Coachey [...] cried ‘G-- d-- you!’.
1819		‘One of the Fancy’ Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress 79: This song [...] in which the language and sentiments of coachee are transferred so ingeniously.
1822		Westmorland Gaz. 27 Apr. 4/5: Coachee [...] you needn’t be afeard of laying it on pretty thick .
1824		National Advocate (N.Y.) 8 Apr. 2/4: He floored a coachy, beat the marshalls, and would have given the magistrates a sample of the hammer school but he could not reach them.
1830		Egan Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 48: Coachy, you are quite an orator.
1832		Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: ‘Ye hoye there, coachee,’ says I.
1833		‘Drive On Coachee!’ in Rake’s Budget in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 73: Sam vos a lady’s coachman rare, / Drive on coachee, push along, keep moving.
1838		T. Haliburton Clockmaker II 296: It put the coachee into such a passion, he’d turn to and lick his horses out o’ spite.
1845		R.S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall III 50: Coachey looking more lively as the emblazoned banner on the castle glittered in the sun.
1846		Bell’s Life in Sydney 31 Jan. 4/1: As I tossed off my ale, / And jumped up on the mail / Alongside of the Coachee jack wade.
1850		‘Epistle from Joe Muggins’s Dog’ in Era (London) 10 Nov. 5/1: [S]ays coachey, "if I hit him, he’ll kall for a chare;’ so we were obligated to padd ther hoof up hill.
1852		G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes III 232: Moreover, ‘coachee’ handled a regular Smithfield pig-whip.
1866		Night Side of N.Y. 41: Coachey is now probably availing himself of circumstances at the ‘establishment’ and pitching into the seven-dollar champagne.
1876		‘Jehu’ in Malet Annals of the Road 143: Coachee knows him to be a member of the Four-in-Hand Club, or a young Oxonian or Cantab.
1879		‘’Arry on the Road’ in Punch 9 Aug. 83/2: I know a good ’oss when I see one; it isn’t for nothing, old chump, / As I ’se parted so free to the Coachies.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Jan. 11/2: [A]fter pitching the coachman’s hat into a swamp, he started to chaw off his ear-flaps. Being in a nasty mood, however, Coachy objected to the operation, upon which the boss snatched up the reins and flogged the horses into a Mulua gall.
1895		Mirror of Life 11/3: [of a bus driver] A good many ’bus drivers [...] pass and repass Mr. Lionel Rothschild’s superb Piccadilly residence [...] and to present each of these coachees with a brace of birds [...] must cause considerable havoc in the Tring preserves.
1897		E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 10: De whole gang of us, his Whiskers, Miss Fannie, coachy, and me, goes t’ de stable.
1902		Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 14/3: Carriages, dog-carts, hansoms passed the girls, and their final descent near the gates caused a big grin along the lines of the ‘coachies.’.
1903		E.W. Townsend Sure 27: [D]at coachy will toin to de right, all right, after dis, all right, sure.
1904		Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Sept. 9/1: Father ’ad bin Hed Coachy but took to Liquer when Lord Rejinald take to motercarse.
1914		Sport (Adelaide) 10 July 4/7: Freddie Hop is the coachie .