Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Skittish; vicious: said of a horse.
  • Ill-conditioned; unchaste: said of a woman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Vicious; ill-tempered; resembling a jade; -- applied to a horse.
  • adjective Unchaste; -- applied to a woman.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a horse Vicious and ill-tempered, like a jade.
  • adjective of a woman unchaste

Etymologies

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jade +‎ -ish

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