Careful Words

jade (n.)

jade (v.)

jade (adj.)

  This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Good-Natured Man. Act i.

Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.