Minute-jacks, probably persons who change their minds every minute and are not to be trusted: “trencher-friends, time's flies, cap and knee slaves, vapours, and --s,” Tim. III, 6, 107 (generally interpreted to mean the same as jacks of the clock, q. v.).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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