QuizMailFeb - Q109

[quizman1979]

Can any of you help on this one ?

In the Royal Navy, a so-called ****** jacket, which was originally a thick close-fitting serge coat worn by sailors on watch during stormy weather, was also known by a name for an insolent rogue which was supposedly derived from the badge of the medievel Dukes of Suffolk. By the 6-letter name of what type of creature, as indicated by the *'s, was this jacket more commonly known ?

[JoolsTwo]

Donkey Jacket?

[fordward]

monkey jacket

[allotment10]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/monkey+jacket

[fordward]

"Precise origin uncertain.
So far as yet found, the word appears first as an opprobrious nickname of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk (murdered 1450), whose badge was a clog and chain, such as was attached to a tame ape. Hence, in a poem of 1449 �, in which other noblemen are denominated by their badges or heraldic emblems, as the Swan, fiery Cresset, Portcullis, Wheat-ear, etc., Suffolk is styled �the Ape-clogge�, and in somewhat later satirical invectives is referred to as an ape,

I Think Monkey Jacket

[quizman1979]

Fordward

I reckon you have got it ! Ta very much. The article that you quote from also mentions 'jackanapes' which is an insolent rogue. So it all seems to fit.

quizman1979