Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-02-01 | Page 4 | What is the Meaning of Jitney?

I WHAT 18 THE MEANING OF JITNEY? A subscriber, reading our editorial of Saturday on the local Jitney invasion, in-vasion, asks the meaning of Jitney There is no reference to Jitney in Webster's and the Jitney bua is too late a creation for the Century We know of no city claiming the name. Circus 'barkers ' are said to call a nickel a jitney. That may explain the evolution of the word A nickel a ride is a jitney, and so we have the jitney bu6, which hereafter must be spelled with a small "J oo