jay

noun8

1. •
   a loud bird that looks like a small crow with brighter colors
2. •
   Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.
3. •
   The Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis.

   • They are the commonality of birddom, who furnish forth the mobs which bewilder the drunken-flighted jay when he jerks, shrieking in a series of blue hyphen-flashes through the air […] — 1878
4. •
   (slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.

   • Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay. — 2009
5. •
   The name of the Latin script letter J/j.
6. •
   Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
7. •
   (no longer used) A dull or ignorant person. It survives today in the term jaywalking.

   • Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade. — 1900
8. •
   (no longer used) Promiscuous woman; prostitute.

   • Some jay of Italy, / Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him: — 1611