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Jackie

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈd͡ʒæki//

A diminutive of the male given name Jack, Jacques (and its cognates) or John.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Jack, Jacques (and its cognates) or John.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline or Jacquelyn.

    a neat Jackie-O pillbox

    Hours into the final public hearing of the House’s historic impeachment inquiry on Thursday, the congresswoman Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, asked the witness to verify a story she had heard about her.

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English Jackin Middle English Jankyn English Jack English -ie English Jackie From Jack + -ie.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).