Johnnyn.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɒni/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɑni/

Forms: 1600s Johnneye, 1600s Jonye, 1700s– Johnny, 1800s– Johnnie, 1800s– Jonny, 1900s– Johnie. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Johnny.

Etymology: < Johnny, pet form of the male forename John (see John n.; compare -y suffix⁶). Compare similar uses of earlier John n., Jack n.²

The male forename Johnny, a familiar form of John (see John n.), applied in a range of general and specific contexts. Cf. similar uses of John n., Jack n.², etc.

a. Chiefly British. In later use frequently with lower-case initial. (A generic name for) a man; a fellow, a guy; now somewhat dated. Now also with modifying word (usually in plural): a man (or person) of the type, group, profession, etc., specified (usually mildly depreciative).

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the world > people > person > man > [noun]

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1648 Mercurius Melancholicus 15–22 Jan. 124 Hath shame and good manners better taught the snivelling Johnneyes?

1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 46 As if it was such a marvel, Jonye should be chous'd when he comes to commence gentleman.

1778 Fidefract iii. 63 Next came twa Johnnies link'd with Sawney.

1824 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Feb. (1981) XI. 124 The English Johnnies who had never been out of a Cockney workshop before!

1908 H. G. Brown Conclusions Everyday Woman 190 These legal Johnnies might know something about law, but what he did not know about bullocks was not worth knowing!

1960 M. Spark Bachelors i. 9 He felt himself to be, not the amiable johnnie he had by then..affected to be.

2000 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) 16 Sept. 43/1 They would rather turn down a six-figure sum than besmirch what I suppose the marketing johnnies are at this moment referring to as ‘Burnley Football Club's re-branding’.

b. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Used as a form of address to an unknown man. Now rare.

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1842 E. D. H. E. Napier Excursions Shores Mediterranean I. 226 Addressing us as ‘Johnny’, [they] were very officious in offering their services. ‘Johnny’ is, in this part of the country, the national appellation of an Englishman by the lower orders of Spaniards.

1889 B. Harte Heritage Dedlow Marsh II. iii. 85 Well, Johnny, what's your name?

1939 J. Dos Passos Adventures of Young Man i. ix. 57 Glenn was speeding up his step to pass on ahead when a heavy hand caught his arm. ‘What's your hurry, Johnny?’

1977 R. Coover Public Burning v. 94 This ain't just another ballgame, johnny.

2. In specific uses. Sometimes as an abbreviation of the fuller names treated at Compounds 1.

†a. Usually with lower-case initial. A male lover or sweetheart; a person's boyfriend. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover

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1726 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. II. 60 Where she that's bony May catch a Johny, And never lead Apes below.

1833 Metrop. Mag. Jan. 30/1 Lovers have proved inconstant, and young ladies have ‘ta'en the carles and left their Johnnies’.

1913 H. Lawson For Austral. & Other Poems 137 Thus the maiden trills and gushes While her johnnie knots his brow.

b. Scottish and English regional. A person (typically a man) from the countryside, esp. characterized as unsophisticated; a rustic, a bumpkin. Cf. Johnny Raw n. 1.Frequently with modifying word, esp. in country Johnny. In some instances perhaps simply a contextual use of sense 1a.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun]

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a1774 R. Fergusson Poems Var. Subj. (1779) 67 I'm but a poor Mid-Louthian Johnnie.

1828 W. Nicholson Poet. Wks. (ed. 2) 138 To hook some simple countra Johnny.

1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Johnnies and Mollies, country lads and lasses.

1996 Independent 2 Apr. 5/7 Mr Price, 72, said: ‘We are just country Johnnies and all our dreams have come true—anything extra will be a bonus.’

†c. Nautical. A sailor. Cf. Jack n.² 3. Obsolete.

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1803 Naval Chron. 9 417 The Johnnys rubbed their hands.

1880 E. E. Hale Stories of Sea (1892) x. 191 We sometimes expected to see our little friend pop fairly under the water, and so elude us by foundering, or escape by witchcraft, by the protection of which, in the opinion of the Johnnies, he had been so long kept from us.

1919 W. R. McKenzie Quest of Ballad v. 77 Heave away, my Johnnies, heave away!

d. Chiefly U.S. and Australian. (A generic name for) a Chinese man; = John n. 2c. Cf. Johnny Chinaman n. at Compounds 2. Now rare (chiefly historical) and usually considered offensive.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [noun] > native or inhabitant of China

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1844 Lit. Gaz. & Jrnl. Belles Lettres 27 Jan. 67/2 The father, though shock'd, join'd the party,..The Johnnies he met were so hearty.

1916 Anzac Bk. 50 What should we at Anzac have done without ‘Johnnie’ and his sturdy little mules?

1969 S. Mays Fall out Officers xxii. 173 ‘Now we are all the fighting brothers,’ said Johnny with delight.

e. Australian and New Zealand colloquial. (A generic name for) a newly arrived immigrant; a new arrival to an area. Cf. Johnny Raw n. 3. Now historical and rare.Sometimes: spec. an immigrant from England.

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1850 Sydney Morning Herald 13 June A flattish immigrant..was on Monday afternoon picked up by a sharp, who, after entering into conversation with Johnny, and discovering that he had money, induced him to go into a public-house.

1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Sept. 15/1 The man who..asserted..that bell-birds sing or ‘bell’ at night is probably a Johnny Raw whom some Cornstalk has ‘soaped’ by putting a horse-bell on, say, a heifer, and then awakening Johnny at 1.40 a.m. to listen to ‘the Australian bell-bird’.

1925 J. Mander Allen Adair i. 16 Come along and see the johnny. He's an Englishman. Going back Home. A queer duck.

1946 G. E. L. Watson But to what Purpose 98 I was still conspicuous of being such a mere ‘Johnnie’, as Englishmen were then called.

f. British and Australian slang. Also with lower-case initial. A policeman. Cf. John n. 3, Johnny Darm n., Johnny Hop n. at Compounds 2. Now rare.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 154/1 The ‘Johnnys’ on the water are always on the look out, and..we has to cut our lucky.

1898 W. T. Goodge in M. Davitt Life & Progress Australasia xxxv. 192 A policeman is a ‘johnny’, Or a ‘copman’ or a ‘trap’.

1935 H. Neville Sneak Thief on Road 347 Johnny, a policeman. A Lincoln johnny, a stupid and impudent policeman.

g. (A generic name for) a Turkish man, esp. a soldier; Turkish troops collectively; = Johnny Turk n. at Compounds 2. Now historical.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Turkey > [noun]

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Turkish

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1854 Times 18 Nov. 7/4 A..commanding officer of a distinguished Fusileer corps was the other night in the trenches when the Turks were digging; and, seeing one rather more idle than the rest, gesticulated violently at him... Johnny, however, soon gave in.

1919 F. Waite New Zealanders at Gallipoli 290 The soldiers bore no malice against the Turks. ‘Goodbye Johnnie, see you soon in the Suez Canal.’

2015 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 21 Apr. 19 The Australian troops called the Turks Johnny, Abdul or Jacko.

†h. (A generic name for) a native Indian soldier serving in the Indian Army under the authority of the East India Company or (later) the British Crown; spec. one fighting against the British in the Indian Rebellion (1857–8); also as a form of address. Also: such soldiers collectively. Cf. Johnny Sepoy n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Indian

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1857 Daily News 30 Dec. 3/3 The men all hearty, and anxious for a brush with ‘Johnny, the Sepoy’, as they call the mutineers. ‘Johnny’ must be a well-known name over all Eastern Europe and Asia.

1858 Leisure Hour 27 May 326/1 Sepoys have long been known as Johnnys.

1916 J. Hargrave At Sulva Bay xx. 127 You ever hear of Rabindranarth [sic] Tagore, Johnnie?

i. U.S. Among Unionist soldiers in the American Civil War (1861–5): a member of the Confederate States Army. Cf. Johnny Reb n. Now historical.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific

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1862 G. Sprenger Diary 30 Oct. in Conc. Hist. Camp & Field Life 122d Regiment (1885) ix. 82 The cavalry forces of our enemy—‘the Johnnies’.

1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 310 It took..the entire regiment hitched to one of the cannon to pull it along the road the Johnnies retreated over.

1943 B. I. Wiley Life Johnny Reb xvi. 313 Sometimes when Johnnies felt constrained to concede particularly desperate fighting on the part of the Federals, they offered in explanation of the valor their conviction that the bravery had been imbibed.

2013 J. Edwards Time for Soldiers I. v. 49 I wondered how much food those Johnnies had. Had the blockade taken effect yet?

j. colloquial. Also with lower-case initial. An idle, vacuous young man (in British use typically an aristocrat), esp. one who is a member of a fashionable set. Now rare.In early use esp. in the context of theatre-going.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male

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1883 Punch 14 Apr. 180/1 He says I am ‘fond of a lark’... And so are the Gaiety Johnnies, and ditto the 'Varsity Blues.

1900 G. Swift Somerley 40 You're Ophelia, Scrubby; but don't you go winking at the johnnies in the stalls, you giddy little crumpet!

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 211 Nut, the latter-day descendant of the ‘Fop’, through the ‘Dandy’, the ‘Heavy Swell’, the ‘Masher’, the ‘Chappy’ and the ‘Johnny’.

1942 ‘D. Ormsbee’ Sound of Amer. 14 Modern Johnnies couldn't teach their grandmothers to suck eggs.

k. British slang (originally and chiefly Military). (A generic name for) an Arab soldier. Cf. Johnny Arab n. at Compounds 2. Now historical and rare.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Arab

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1884 Daily News 31 Dec. 6/2 We refer to the 19th Hussars, who, with their comrades of the 10th, charged in and out among the ‘Johnnies’—as the Arabs were somewhat sympathetically known in camp.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 103 Johnny, soldiers' word for Arab. It rebounded, as Arabs also used the name for British soldiers.

l. British slang (originally and chiefly Military). (A generic name for) a Gurkha. Also as a form of address. Cf. Johnny Gurkha n. at Compounds 2. Now historical and rare.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]

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1888 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 103 A Highlander..turning to a Gurkha, said, ‘Hya, Johnny!’

1951 Daily Mail 4 Jan. 2/7 Johnny's future. Johnny Gurkha, two Sten-guns high.., and serving as a mercenary in the armies of Britain and India.

1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 131 Many Gurkhas carried them in their hip-pockets, and if you were suddenly stung a tergo and heard a smothered giggle from behind a tree, it was worth stopping and shouting: ‘idderao, Johnny!’

m. slang (originally Nautical). A novice; a new recruit. Cf. Johnny Raw n. 2.

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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner

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1901 T. W. Hammond On Board Whaler xxxv. 388 The bill, yeh darned mummy of a Johnny, yeh... You're a Johnny, and that's all yeh be—jest a Johnny.

1989 P. A. Micheels Braving Flames ii. 18 I was a new fireman, what they call a Johnny.

n. British colloquial. (A generic name for) an onion seller from Brittany, esp. the town of Roscoff, who sells onions door-to-door around the south coasts of England and Wales. More fully Onion Johnny. Now chiefly historical.Such onion sellers were most common in the UK from the early to mid 20th cent.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of onions

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1928 Scotsman 19 Oct. 5/2 Perhaps he in turn reads in my eyes some of the yielding that all housewives have given to Onion Johnny.

1960 Guardian 8 Mar. 8/7 Any time now we shall have the Johnnies coming around in small vans.

2017 Bridport & Lyme Regis News (Nexis) 6 Oct. The Onion Johnnies first arrived almost 200 years ago... The sight of a beret-wearing Frenchman wearing a striped jumper and weighed down by strings of onions as he cycled from house to house was a common sight in the UK.

3. Denoting an animal.

†a. slang. A Bengal tiger. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Panthera > panthera tigris (tiger)

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1814 Morning Post 21 Oct. We entered the jungle, and soon caught a sight of three Johnnies.

b. The gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua. Also more fully Johnny penguin.

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the world > animals > birds > order Sphenisciformes or penguin > [noun] > member of genus Pygoscelis (gentoo)

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1832 G. M. Goodridge Narr. Voy. South Seas 34 The Johnnys build their nests superior to either of the others, among the long grass.

1898 Daily News 19 Apr. 6/2 Reading the following paragraph on penguins—or Johnnies as they are familiarly called.

1954 W. B. Alexander Birds of Ocean (ed. 2) 155 At the Falkland Islands it [sc. the gentoo penguin] is usually known as the ‘Johnny’.

2013 G. Francis Empire Antarctica ii. 24 The gnarly sealers who worked the sub-antarctic called these birds ‘Johnny Penguin’.

c. U.S. regional. A small freshwater darter of the percid subfamily Etheostomatinae; esp. (more fully Johnny darter) Etheostoma nigrum. Also: a sculpin of the Pacific coast; esp. (more fully tidepool Johnny) Oligocottus maculosus.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > member of subfamily Etheostominae

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1875 D. S. Jordan in 6th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana 1874 213 Percina... Barred Darters... Hog Fish. Johnny. Jack Pike.

1882 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1881 4 59 Oligocottus maculosus Grd.—Johnny.

1912 A. B. Comstock Handbk. Nature Study I. ii. ii. 177/1 The johnny darters are, with the sticklebacks, the most amusing little fish in the aquarium.

1941 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Sea of Cortez xxi. 206 The sharp spines of an urchin may protect a tide-pool johnny from a larger preying fish.

2009 Amer. Currents Winter 21/1 Tank-care of Johnnies is quite simple.

4. slang. The penis. Cf. John n. 6, John Thomas n. 2.In quot. ?1833 with punning allusion to jingling Johnny n. (a) at jingling adj. 2. to give (someone) the Johnny: (of a man) to have sexual intercourse with (someone).

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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis

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John Henry1874

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John Thomasc1890

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?1833 Swell, or Slap-up Chaunter 13 Then you lay down, and I'll lay upon ye, And I'll play you a tune with my gingling Johnny.

?1889 ‘C. Deveureux’ Vénus in India I. 39 How soft..did her cunt feel, as inch by inch I buried Johnnie in it.

a1948 Alphabet Song in V. Randolph & G. Legman Blow Candle Out (1992) 618 S is for safety that is made of fish skin, It usually breaks when you shove Johnny in.

1992 P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 138 I'd give her the johnny and no mistake! I'm the man would slip the boy in there double quick!

2011 @AdrianWarlick 3 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) You tell all the girls how small his Johnny is.

5. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Usually with lower-case initial. A toilet, a lavatory; = John n. 7. Cf. jakes n. 1a.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory

closet1496

water closet1736

water closet1747

throne room1787

W.C.1815

netty1825

convenience1841

Johnny1847

lavabo1852

restrooma1856

small room1858

cloakroom1865

lavatory1874

bathroom1883

toilet1886

can1900

place1902

lav1913

washroom1919

head1920

lavvy1922

dike1923

smallest room1930

John1931

khazi1932

loo1940

biffy1942

Wa1953

shitcan1954

commode1958

cludgie1961

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 485/1 Johnny.., a jakes. These terms are clearly connected with each other.

1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) iv. 98 Kitty Hofman came in the johnny.

1971 D. Conover One Man's Island 65 Why, oh, why, do little boys (and big ones) rush to a johnny when nature provides opportunity everywhere?

2002 J. Karon In this Mountain iv. 65 Just sit down right here and fool with it while I go to the johnny.

6. U.S. colloquial. Usually with lower-case initial. A hospital gown. Frequently in hospital johnny.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > other

footmantlec1405

cover-slut1639

Johnny1920

smock1938

1920 Boston Sunday Globe 9 May 52/4 If you wish to use your own night gowns while there I believe you may... I am going to wear the hospital ‘johnnies’ while there.

1958 Amer. Speech 33 75 The student nurse who showed me to my room paused at the door and said, ‘Just a minute and I'll go get you a johnny’.

2008 A. Proulx in New Yorker 9 June 81 Shaina Lister,..slinking and wincing, still in her hospital johnny, down the back stairs of Mercy Maternity to the street.

7. British slang. Usually with lower-case initial. A condom; = rubber johnny n. at rubber n.¹ Compounds 3.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > contraception > [noun] > devices or methods

sponge1823

French tickler1905

Gräfenberg ring1930

male condom1938

skin1956

Johnny1963

internal condom1969

female condom1982

contragestive1987

Femidom1989

1963 R. Gosling in New Society 18 Apr. 9 We asked for sex and were offered a packet of johnnies.

1970 Times Educ. Suppl. 4 Dec. 23/3 At 50..things became much warmer, and went up by a carefully graded system to 100, which, my informant wrote, ‘is rightly reserved for full intercourse without a johnny’.

2003 R. Bean Honeymoon Suite 47 Irene: Have you got any johnnies? Eddie: Jesus Christ on a raft! Johnnies? You do want kids don't yer?

Phrases

Phrases in which Johnny forms part of a colloquial name or nickname for a particular (type of) person or thing.

Johnny Head-in-the-Air n. (also Johnny-Head-in-Air) (a nickname for) a person (esp. a man) who is dreamy, absent-minded, or unworldly; cf. head-in-air adj. 1. [Apparently after German Hans-guck-in-die-Luft (1857 or earlier in Struwwelpeter), perhaps itself after Hans-guck-in-die-Welt (18th cent. or earlier), the name later given to the adventurous hero of a 16th-cent. romance.]

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > one who daydreams

musardc1330

John-a-dreams1603

air-monger1628

castle-builder1711

daydreamer1750

castle-hunter1752

Alnaschar1800

reverist1824

stargazer1843

Johnny Head-in-the-Air?1851

pipe-dreamer1899

head-in-air1932

Walter Mitty1947

Mitty1953

?1851 tr. H. Hoffmann Eng. Struwwelpeter (ed. 4) 21 (title) The story of Johnny Head-in-Air.

1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem i. 14 What happier place For Johnny Head-in-Air, Who never would hear Time mumbling at the base?

1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties xvi. 225 Yet he was not a Johnny-Head-in-the-Air; he had a shrewd grasp of the contemporary scene.

2017 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. Oh, very clever. But they are all Johnny Head-in-The-Airs.

Johnny-jump-up n. North American any of several wild or cultivated pansies or violets (genus Viola).Cf. Johnny jumper n. at Compounds 3.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers

pansyc1450

heartsease1530

pansy flower1530

three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548

bulbous violet1578

love-in-idleness1578

sweet violet1578

pensea1592

cull-me-to-you1597

dog's tooth violet1597

dog violet1597

kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597

live in idleness1597

wild violet1597

yellow violet1597

love-and-idle1630

love-in-idle1664

trinity1699

fancy1712

wood violet1713

marsh violet1753

tree violet1753

kiss-me-at-the-gate1787

bird's-foot violet1802

Parma violet1812

Johnny-jump-up1827

stepmother1828

Neapolitan violet1830

garden gate1842

butterfly pea1848

kissa1852

pinkany-John1854

viola1871

kiss-me1877

pink-eyed John1877

face and hood1886

roosterhead1894

trout-lily1909

1827 Casket Apr. 152/1 The cheerful looking lady slipper, and sweet little johnny jump-up are given as the best specimens for examination.

1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) iii. 48 Under foot the ground teemed with lupine and phlox and those large scentless violets which the natives call ‘Johnny-jump-ups’.

2006 Saltscapes (Canada) Mar. 86/2 There will also be violets and Johnny-jump-ups to add some colour.

Johnny-one-note n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a name for) a person who specializes in or concentrates on only one area of activity, or has competence in only one limited subject.Popularized by a song in the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms, telling the story of a singer who can only sing one note; see quot. 1937¹.

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1937 L. Hart Johnny One Note (sheet music) 3 Poor Johnny One-Note Yelled willy-nilly Until he was blue in the face,—For holding one note was his ace.]

1937 N.Y. Times 26 July 17/6 Céline is a ‘Johnny One-Note’... ‘I am very limited,’ he said, ‘in what I can do. I can only write nightmares.’

2018 @musicaamazigh 22 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) She's a johnny-one-note... She's not a well-rounded Democrat. Her interests and expertise are limited.

Compounds

C1. Prefixed to a noun to form a nickname or generic name for a person representing, embodying, or associated with the second element; frequently denoting a person from a foreign country. Often derogatory or in contemptuous use. Cf. Jack n.² Compounds 1.Some more established uses of this type are treated as main entries.

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1838 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. June 370 Jonny Frenchman lost no time in serving it out to us from every gun he could bring to bear.

1900 Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio) 8 June Johnny Jap is ‘civilizing’ fast.

1991 Independent 5 May 20/4 The South African police seem not to have heard that Johnny Boer is supposed to behave nicely to the black majority these days.

2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand (2002) 397 Littell ran over fast. The cops saw him. Looks traveled—check Johnny Fed.

C2.

Johnny Arab n. (also with lower-case initial in the first element) British slang (offensive) (a generic name for) an Arab man, esp. a soldier; Arab troops collectively.

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1939 R. Courtney Palestine Policeman 13 A man who could bluff his way into the country like that might be the sort of man to bluff some of the johnny-Arabs who were giving the Administration such trouble.

2007 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 8/4 ‘Good job Johnny Arab didn't threaten to shoot his teddy bear or he would have completely folded,’ one colleague wrote.

Johnny Armstrong n. [with punning allusion to arm n.¹ and strong adj., perhaps after Johnie Armstrong, the hero of a traditional ballad (mid 17th century or earlier) of the same name] slang rare the action of pulling something which requires strength; hard physical work.

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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > work involving or involved in

pully-hauly1820

Johnny Armstrong1922

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > involving pulling

Johnny Armstrong1922

1922 Notes & Queries 9 Sept. 206/2 Johnny Armstrong, the action of ‘pulling’ or restraining a horse.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 66/2 Johnny Armstrong, any hard work involving pulling or hauling.

Johnny Bull n. a name given to the English nation, or Britain, personified; a (typical) English or British person; = John Bull n. 1.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun]

EngleeOE

EnglishOE

English-Saxona1387

Anglea1398

Southron1488

England1569

Anglo-Saxon1602

John Bull1748

Johnny Bull?1762

Southronya1795

Bull1825

Englishry1856

?1762 A. M. E. Cooke King cannot Err Epil. 29 O ye Gods, I swear by Johnny Bull.

1814 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 24 Dec. When Johnny Bull heard of the capture of the Frolic by the Wasp, he felt quite waspish.

1907 H. Pendexter Tiberius Smith xiii. 240 We..were pleased on reaching Oroya to find a choice and convivial cluster of Yankees and Johnny Bulls, all civil engineers.

2001 Observer (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Business section) 7 Like Johnny Bull, we're supposed to cherish our sovereignty and wave fists at a Brussels threatening great national institutions.

Johnny Chinaman n. now archaic or in humorous or ironic use (usually considered offensive) (a generic name for) a Chinese man; the Chinese nation personified; cf. sense 2d and John Chinaman n. at John n. Compounds 1a.

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1840 J. S. Henshaw Around World II. viii. 146 Johnny Chinaman had applied so well the practice of Johnny Bull in planting, that he was able to teach his teacher.

1911 Boys' Life Dec. 43/1 We'll have to watch Johnny Chinaman closer than ever.

2012 J. Burdett Vulture Peak xiv. 103 The more one eats and drinks at the Hong Kong Club, the more of one's dope Johnny Chinaman has to smoke so he can haul one up the hill afterward, ha, ha.

† Johnny Company n. British slang Obsolete the East India Company.

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1809 Ld. Minto Let. 15 May in Lord Minto in India (1880) viii. 184 To save Johnny Company's cash.

1866 Belfast News-let. 24 July For the first time..since the change took place in the Government of India, on ‘Johnny Company’ being sent to the right-about, an Indian Budget was laid..before the House of Commons.

Johnny Gurkha n. British slang (originally and chiefly Military) (a generic name for) a Gurkha; Gurkhas collectively.

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1894 Baily's Mag. Nov. 342/2 My orderly, a sporting little ‘Johnnie Gurkha,’ slipped in the gaff.

1930 in Mod. Asian Stud. 16 (1982) 480 Johnny Gurkha commands the greatest respect in mofassil Bengal as a fighting man.

2016 Sc. Daily Mail (Nexis) 10 Feb. 49 It is known that a certain Johnny Gurkha was once a member of the SAS.

Johnny Hop n. [probably rhyming slang for cop n.⁵; compare slightly earlier John Hop n. at John n. Compounds 1a] Australian and New Zealand slang (now rare) (a generic name for) a policeman; = John Hop n. at John n. Compounds 1a; cf. sense 2f.

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1908 Ballarat (Victoria) Star 23 May 3/2 They came to see Sir A. J. P. About the local ‘cop’, Whose name is spelt like Weppener—A foreign ‘Johnny Hop.’

1943 Otaki (N. Z.) Mail 12 Mar. He's six feet two is Johnny Hop, His weight is fifteen stone, And that he is a stalwart cop He's very proud to own.

Johnny Sepoy n. now historical and rare (a generic name for) a native Indian soldier serving in the Indian Army under the authority of the East India Company or (later) the British Crown; spec. one fighting against the British in the Indian Rebellion (1857–8); such soldiers collectively; cf. sense 2h.

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1857 Let. 2 Dec. in Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser (1858) 23 Jan. 5/2 Oh, they have such a grudge against Johnny Sepoy.

1858 Let. 13 June in Ipswich Jrnl. 7 Aug. There still appear to be a very large number of these Johnny Sepoys knocking about.

1947 Daily Mail 7 Feb. 2/4 Johnny Sepoy..is no conscript but a volunteer.

1985 S. Hunter Spanish Gambit xxxiv. 236 Imagine the world of Johnny Sepoy, sent around the globe to die for a king he didn't know.

Johnny Turk n. colloquial (offensive) a Turkish man, esp. a soldier; Turkish troops collectively; cf. sense 2g.In quot. 1836: a generic name given to an Arab man.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Turkey > [noun]

turkeina1330

Turka1400

Turkman1481

Ottoman1546

Turkisher1607

Ottomanic1614

Ottomitea1616

Othman1787

Johnny Turk1836

Johnny1854

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Turkish

janissary1615

Arnaut1717

Johnny Turk1836

Johnny1854

Abdul1870

1836 G. Jones Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, & Balbec 86 Johnny Turk, here, lengthen this stirrup for me.

1854 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 30 Dec. 10/1 Even poor Johnny Turk is better off than we are.

1919 Mr. Punch's Hist. Great War 24 Now it is the turn of ‘Johnny Turk’, who has had his knock on the Suez Canal.

2005 P. Taylor Now & in Hour of our Death vi. 60 It is a rather promising sign that Johnny Turk and a Greek are going into business together over here.

Johnny Woodser n. Australian and New Zealand slang (now rare) a person who drinks alone, to avoid buying other people a drink; a drink taken on one's own; = Jimmy Woodser n. at Jimmy n.² 4.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > taken on one's own

Jimmy Woodser1892

Johnny Woodser1892

1892 Singleton (New S. Wales) Argus 13 Aug. The man who goes to a public-house and has a drink alone is called a ‘Johnny Woodser’ or ‘hatter’—the inference being that he is too mean to treat those whom he meets at the bar.

1899 Truth (Sydney) 21 May 5/6 I think I'll have a tiddly Johnny Woodser.

1943 H. E. Beros Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels 19 You could bet he was a Johnny Woodser soaking Jungle Juice.

C3. In the names of plants and animals.

Johnny-cock-horse n. U.S. regional (now rare) a mantis (family Mantidae).

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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 356 Rear Horse, the vulgar name, at the South, for the orthopterous insect called the Mantis, Camel Cricket, or Johnny Cock-horse.

1888 D. A. Payne Recoll. Seventy Years xxxi. 307 A ‘hobby-horse’, as some people call the insect, or a ‘Johnny-cock-horse’, as others call it, was in a cluster of dahlias.

1953 R. Molloy Multitude of Sins vii. 59 ‘Don't stand there looking like a Johnny-cock-horse..’. ‘But—’ Margaret protested. It was barely possible that she resented being compared to a praying mantis.

Johnny jumper n. North American any of several pansies or violets (genus Viola); esp. the heartsease, V. tricolor.Cf. Johnny-jump-up n. at Phrases.

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1840 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer June 91/1 Some teazing fine coxcomb, with sweet williams, gay; Sweet-balm, johnny-jumpers, and bob-run-away.

1909 Good Housek. Mar. 387/1 There was a veritable carpet of large lavender violets along the edge, but when we examined them more closely we found them to be one-colored lavender ‘Johnny jumpers’.

2014 J. Lust Herb Bk. 324 Pansy (Viola tricolor) Common Names: Garden violet, heartsease, Johnny Jumper, stepmother.

Johnny Magorey n. (also Johnny McGory, Johnny McGorey, Johnny McGrorey) Irish English a fruit of the dog rose, Rosa canina, or (sometimes) of the hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna; a rose hip, a haw. [The second element is probably ultimately < Irish mogóir, †mugóire haw, rose hip (Early Irish mucor kind of berry or haw, of uncertain origin), with remodelling (within English) after the surname McGorey (Irish Mac Gothraidh).]

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > poisonous berries

poison berry1672

Johnny Magorey1855

1855 J. McCarroll New Gauger iv, in Anglo-Amer. Mag. Mar. 249/1 I..filled my pockets, in the early frost, with sloes as big as Johnny Magories.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 166 If you didn't know risky putting anything into your mouth. Poisonous berries. Johnny Magories.

1995 R. Wall Dict. & Gloss. Irish Lit. Revival 88 Johnny Magorey / McGory (magories), a hip, a dog-haw, the berry of the dog-rose; a rhyme used to tease young children.

C4.

johnny bag n. British slang A condom; cf. sense 7.

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1965 New Society 14 Jan. 16/1 As regards birth control they all said it was easy to get ‘Johnny bags’ at the barbers.

2014 B. Conaghan When Mr Dog Bites 276 Get in there, my son. Give her one for the lads. Make sure you wear a Johnny-bag.

johnny-house n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern) an outside toilet, a privy, an outhouse; cf. sense 5.

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1937 High Point (N. Carolina) Enterprise 25 Apr. 10/3 Conversation, in my opinion, should be kept on a much higher level than Johnny houses and venereal diseases.

1994 K. Lasky Mem. of Bookbat ix. 75 Gammy's house didn't have an indoor bathroom. I liked that. You had to walk up to the johnny house.

2018 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz.-Mail (Nexis) 28 Apr. 5 c It was an old, Jenny Lind house, with a tar-paper roof, which sometimes leaked, surrounded by the johnny-house and tool house.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	johnny
释义	Johnnyn. Brit. /ˈdʒɒni/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑni/ Forms: 1600s Johnneye, 1600s Jonye, 1700s– Johnny, 1800s– Johnnie, 1800s– Jonny, 1900s– Johnie. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Johnny. Etymology: < Johnny, pet form of the male forename John (see John n.; compare -y suffix⁶). Compare similar uses of earlier John n., Jack n.² The male forename Johnny, a familiar form of John (see John n.), applied in a range of general and specific contexts. Cf. similar uses of John n., Jack n.², etc. 1. a. Chiefly British. In later use frequently with lower-case initial. (A generic name for) a man; a fellow, a guy; now somewhat dated. Now also with modifying word (usually in plural): a man (or person) of the type, group, profession, etc., specified (usually mildly depreciative). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] churla800 werec900 rinkeOE wapmanc950 heOE wyeOE gomeOE ledeOE seggeOE shalkOE manOE carmanlOE mother bairnc1225 hemea1250 mother sona1250 hind1297 buck1303 mister mana1325 piecec1325 groomc1330 man of mouldc1330 hathela1350 sire1362 malea1382 fellowa1393 guestc1394 sergeant?a1400 tailarda1400 tulka1400 harlotc1405 mother's sona1470 frekea1475 her1488 masculinea1500 gentlemana1513 horse?a1513 mutton?a1513 merchant1549 child1551 dick1553 sorrya1555 knavea1556 dandiprat1556 cove1567 rat1571 manling1573 bird1575 stone-horse1580 loona1586 shaver1592 slave1592 copemate1593 tit1594 dog1597 hima1599 prick1598 dingle-dangle1605 jade1608 dildoa1616 Roger1631 Johnny1648 boy1651 cod1653 cully1676 son of a bitch1697 cull1698 feller1699 chap1704 buff1708 son of a gun1708 buffer1749 codger1750 Mr1753 he-man1758 fella1778 gilla1790 gloak1795 joker1811 gory1819 covey1821 chappie1822 Charley1825 hombre1832 brother-man1839 rooster1840 blokie1841 hoss1843 Joe1846 guy1847 plug1848 chal1851 rye1851 omee1859 bloke1861 guffin1862 gadgie1865 mug1865 kerel1873 stiff1882 snoozer1884 geezer1885 josser1886 dude1895 gazabo1896 jasper1896 prairie dog1897 sport1897 crow-eater1899 papa1903 gink1906 stud1909 scout1912 head1913 beezer1914 jeff1917 pisser1918 bimbo1919 bozo1920 gee1921 mush1936 rye mush1936 basher1942 okie1943 mugger1945 cat1946 ou1949 tess1952 oke1970 bra1974 muzhik1993 1648 Mercurius Melancholicus 15–22 Jan. 124 Hath shame and good manners better taught the snivelling Johnneyes? 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 46 As if it was such a marvel, Jonye should be chous'd when he comes to commence gentleman. 1778 Fidefract iii. 63 Next came twa Johnnies link'd with Sawney. 1824 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Feb. (1981) XI. 124 The English Johnnies who had never been out of a Cockney workshop before! 1908 H. G. Brown Conclusions Everyday Woman 190 These legal Johnnies might know something about law, but what he did not know about bullocks was not worth knowing! 1960 M. Spark Bachelors i. 9 He felt himself to be, not the amiable johnnie he had by then..affected to be. 2000 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) 16 Sept. 43/1 They would rather turn down a six-figure sum than besmirch what I suppose the marketing johnnies are at this moment referring to as ‘Burnley Football Club's re-branding’. b. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Used as a form of address to an unknown man. Now rare. ΚΠ 1842 E. D. H. E. Napier Excursions Shores Mediterranean I. 226 Addressing us as ‘Johnny’, [they] were very officious in offering their services. ‘Johnny’ is, in this part of the country, the national appellation of an Englishman by the lower orders of Spaniards. 1889 B. Harte Heritage Dedlow Marsh II. iii. 85 Well, Johnny, what's your name? 1939 J. Dos Passos Adventures of Young Man i. ix. 57 Glenn was speeding up his step to pass on ahead when a heavy hand caught his arm. ‘What's your hurry, Johnny?’ 1977 R. Coover Public Burning v. 94 This ain't just another ballgame, johnny. 2. In specific uses. Sometimes as an abbreviation of the fuller names treated at Compounds 1. †a. Usually with lower-case initial. A male lover or sweetheart; a person's boyfriend. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover servantc1405 specialc1425 servitorc1450 love-lad1586 young man1589 inamorato1592 swainc1592 gentleman friend1667 enamorado1677 spark1707 beau?1720 Johnny1726 man friend1736 feller1842 novio1843 soupirant1849 fella1874 man1874 fellow1878 square-pusher1890 stud1895 papa1896 lover mana1905 boyfriend1906 daddy1912 lover-boy1925 sheikh1925 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 older man1951 boyf1990 1726 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. II. 60 Where she that's bony May catch a Johny, And never lead Apes below. 1833 Metrop. Mag. Jan. 30/1 Lovers have proved inconstant, and young ladies have ‘ta'en the carles and left their Johnnies’. 1913 H. Lawson For Austral. & Other Poems 137 Thus the maiden trills and gushes While her johnnie knots his brow. b. Scottish and English regional. A person (typically a man) from the countryside, esp. characterized as unsophisticated; a rustic, a bumpkin. Cf. Johnny Raw n. 1.Frequently with modifying word, esp. in country Johnny. In some instances perhaps simply a contextual use of sense 1a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] churlc1275 Hobc1325 Hodgec1386 charla1400 carlc1405 peasanta1450 hoggler1465 agrest1480 hoggener1488 rustical?1532 boor1548 rusticc1550 kern1556 clown1563 Jocka1568 John Uponlanda1568 russet coat1568 rustican1570 hind?1577 Corydon1581 gaffer1589 gran1591 russeting1597 dunghill1608 hog rubber1611 carlota1616 high shoe1647 Bonhomme1660 high-shoon-man1664 cot1695 ruralist1739 Johnnya1774 Harry1796 bodach1830 bucolic1862 cafone1872 bogman1891 country bookie1904 desi1907 middle peasant1929 woodchuck1931 swede-basher1943 moegoe1953 shit-kicker1961 a1774 R. Fergusson Poems Var. Subj. (1779) 67 I'm but a poor Mid-Louthian Johnnie. 1828 W. Nicholson Poet. Wks. (ed. 2) 138 To hook some simple countra Johnny. 1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Johnnies and Mollies, country lads and lasses. 1996 Independent 2 Apr. 5/7 Mr Price, 72, said: ‘We are just country Johnnies and all our dreams have come true—anything extra will be a bonus.’ †c. Nautical. A sailor. Cf. Jack n.² 3. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1803 Naval Chron. 9 417 The Johnnys rubbed their hands. 1880 E. E. Hale Stories of Sea (1892) x. 191 We sometimes expected to see our little friend pop fairly under the water, and so elude us by foundering, or escape by witchcraft, by the protection of which, in the opinion of the Johnnies, he had been so long kept from us. 1919 W. R. McKenzie Quest of Ballad v. 77 Heave away, my Johnnies, heave away! d. Chiefly U.S. and Australian. (A generic name for) a Chinese man; = John n. 2c. Cf. Johnny Chinaman n. at Compounds 2. Now rare (chiefly historical) and usually considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [noun] > native or inhabitant of China Cathayan?1520 Chinean1577 Son of Heaven1579 Chino1588 chinois1594 Chinese1606 Chinesianc1615 Chinaman1621 China1638 Chinist1654 Chinensian1655 pigtail1823 celestial1842 Johnny1844 coolie1849 John1853 Chinky1871 chow1872 Chink1880 monk1903 Pong1910 power point1986 1844 Lit. Gaz. & Jrnl. Belles Lettres 27 Jan. 67/2 The father, though shock'd, join'd the party,..The Johnnies he met were so hearty. 1916 Anzac Bk. 50 What should we at Anzac have done without ‘Johnnie’ and his sturdy little mules? 1969 S. Mays Fall out Officers xxii. 173 ‘Now we are all the fighting brothers,’ said Johnny with delight. e. Australian and New Zealand colloquial. (A generic name for) a newly arrived immigrant; a new arrival to an area. Cf. Johnny Raw n. 3. Now historical and rare.Sometimes: spec. an immigrant from England. ΚΠ 1850 Sydney Morning Herald 13 June A flattish immigrant..was on Monday afternoon picked up by a sharp, who, after entering into conversation with Johnny, and discovering that he had money, induced him to go into a public-house. 1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Sept. 15/1 The man who..asserted..that bell-birds sing or ‘bell’ at night is probably a Johnny Raw whom some Cornstalk has ‘soaped’ by putting a horse-bell on, say, a heifer, and then awakening Johnny at 1.40 a.m. to listen to ‘the Australian bell-bird’. 1925 J. Mander Allen Adair i. 16 Come along and see the johnny. He's an Englishman. Going back Home. A queer duck. 1946 G. E. L. Watson But to what Purpose 98 I was still conspicuous of being such a mere ‘Johnnie’, as Englishmen were then called. f. British and Australian slang. Also with lower-case initial. A policeman. Cf. John n. 3, Johnny Darm n., Johnny Hop n. at Compounds 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 154/1 The ‘Johnnys’ on the water are always on the look out, and..we has to cut our lucky. 1898 W. T. Goodge in M. Davitt Life & Progress Australasia xxxv. 192 A policeman is a ‘johnny’, Or a ‘copman’ or a ‘trap’. 1935 H. Neville Sneak Thief on Road 347 Johnny, a policeman. A Lincoln johnny, a stupid and impudent policeman. g. (A generic name for) a Turkish man, esp. a soldier; Turkish troops collectively; = Johnny Turk n. at Compounds 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Turkey > [noun] turkeina1330 Turka1400 Turkman1481 Ottoman1546 Turkisher1607 Ottomanic1614 Ottomitea1616 Othman1787 Johnny Turk1836 Johnny1854 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Turkish janissary1615 Arnaut1717 Johnny Turk1836 Johnny1854 Abdul1870 1854 Times 18 Nov. 7/4 A..commanding officer of a distinguished Fusileer corps was the other night in the trenches when the Turks were digging; and, seeing one rather more idle than the rest, gesticulated violently at him... Johnny, however, soon gave in. 1919 F. Waite New Zealanders at Gallipoli 290 The soldiers bore no malice against the Turks. ‘Goodbye Johnnie, see you soon in the Suez Canal.’ 2015 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 21 Apr. 19 The Australian troops called the Turks Johnny, Abdul or Jacko. †h. (A generic name for) a native Indian soldier serving in the Indian Army under the authority of the East India Company or (later) the British Crown; spec. one fighting against the British in the Indian Rebellion (1857–8); also as a form of address. Also: such soldiers collectively. Cf. Johnny Sepoy n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Indian lascarine1598 Bugis1698 sepoy1718 Telinga1760 jawan1839 Johnny1857 jiwan1915 1857 Daily News 30 Dec. 3/3 The men all hearty, and anxious for a brush with ‘Johnny, the Sepoy’, as they call the mutineers. ‘Johnny’ must be a well-known name over all Eastern Europe and Asia. 1858 Leisure Hour 27 May 326/1 Sepoys have long been known as Johnnys. 1916 J. Hargrave At Sulva Bay xx. 127 You ever hear of Rabindranarth [sic] Tagore, Johnnie? i. U.S. Among Unionist soldiers in the American Civil War (1861–5): a member of the Confederate States Army. Cf. Johnny Reb n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific Jersey blue1758 shirtman1775 Yorker1776 buckskin1783 Indian fighter1824 blue belly1827 greyback1854 Zouave1860 Zou-Zou1860 greycoat1861 grey1862 Johnny1862 Johnny Reb1862 blue1870 blue coat1885 dogface1932 1862 G. Sprenger Diary 30 Oct. in Conc. Hist. Camp & Field Life 122d Regiment (1885) ix. 82 The cavalry forces of our enemy—‘the Johnnies’. 1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 310 It took..the entire regiment hitched to one of the cannon to pull it along the road the Johnnies retreated over. 1943 B. I. Wiley Life Johnny Reb xvi. 313 Sometimes when Johnnies felt constrained to concede particularly desperate fighting on the part of the Federals, they offered in explanation of the valor their conviction that the bravery had been imbibed. 2013 J. Edwards Time for Soldiers I. v. 49 I wondered how much food those Johnnies had. Had the blockade taken effect yet? j. colloquial. Also with lower-case initial. An idle, vacuous young man (in British use typically an aristocrat), esp. one who is a member of a fashionable set. Now rare.In early use esp. in the context of theatre-going. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 1883 Punch 14 Apr. 180/1 He says I am ‘fond of a lark’... And so are the Gaiety Johnnies, and ditto the 'Varsity Blues. 1900 G. Swift Somerley 40 You're Ophelia, Scrubby; but don't you go winking at the johnnies in the stalls, you giddy little crumpet! 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 211 Nut, the latter-day descendant of the ‘Fop’, through the ‘Dandy’, the ‘Heavy Swell’, the ‘Masher’, the ‘Chappy’ and the ‘Johnny’. 1942 ‘D. Ormsbee’ Sound of Amer. 14 Modern Johnnies couldn't teach their grandmothers to suck eggs. k. British slang (originally and chiefly Military). (A generic name for) an Arab soldier. Cf. Johnny Arab n. at Compounds 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Arab Saracenc893 HagareneOE Araba1382 Turka1400 Ismaelite1571 Ishmaelite1577 A-rab1865 Johnny1884 1884 Daily News 31 Dec. 6/2 We refer to the 19th Hussars, who, with their comrades of the 10th, charged in and out among the ‘Johnnies’—as the Arabs were somewhat sympathetically known in camp. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 103 Johnny, soldiers' word for Arab. It rebounded, as Arabs also used the name for British soldiers. l. British slang (originally and chiefly Military). (A generic name for) a Gurkha. Also as a form of address. Cf. Johnny Gurkha n. at Compounds 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun] spahi1562 legionnaire1595 strelitz1603 Croat1623 deli1667 Croatian1700 lancer1712 highlander1725 lambs1744 royals1762 light-bob1778 fly-slicer1785 Life Guardsman1785 royals?1795 Hottentot1796 yeoman1798 pandour1800 Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811 forty-two man1816 kilty1842 Zouave1848 bumblerc1850 Inniskilliner1853 blue cap1857 turco1860 Zou-Zou1860 mudlark1878 king's man1883 Johnny1888 Piffer1892 evzone1897 horse gunner1897 dink1906 army ranger1910 grognard1912 Jock1914 chocolate soldier1915 Cook's tourist1915 dinkum1916 Anzaca1918 choc1917 ranger1942 Chindit1943 Desert Rat1944 Green Beret1949 1888 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 103 A Highlander..turning to a Gurkha, said, ‘Hya, Johnny!’ 1951 Daily Mail 4 Jan. 2/7 Johnny's future. Johnny Gurkha, two Sten-guns high.., and serving as a mercenary in the armies of Britain and India. 1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 131 Many Gurkhas carried them in their hip-pockets, and if you were suddenly stung a tergo and heard a smothered giggle from behind a tree, it was worth stopping and shouting: ‘idderao, Johnny!’ m. slang (originally Nautical). A novice; a new recruit. Cf. Johnny Raw n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 1901 T. W. Hammond On Board Whaler xxxv. 388 The bill, yeh darned mummy of a Johnny, yeh... You're a Johnny, and that's all yeh be—jest a Johnny. 1989 P. A. Micheels Braving Flames ii. 18 I was a new fireman, what they call a Johnny. n. British colloquial. (A generic name for) an onion seller from Brittany, esp. the town of Roscoff, who sells onions door-to-door around the south coasts of England and Wales. More fully Onion Johnny. Now chiefly historical.Such onion sellers were most common in the UK from the early to mid 20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of onions onion seller?c1475 Johnny1928 1928 Scotsman 19 Oct. 5/2 Perhaps he in turn reads in my eyes some of the yielding that all housewives have given to Onion Johnny. 1960 Guardian 8 Mar. 8/7 Any time now we shall have the Johnnies coming around in small vans. 2017 Bridport & Lyme Regis News (Nexis) 6 Oct. The Onion Johnnies first arrived almost 200 years ago... The sight of a beret-wearing Frenchman wearing a striped jumper and weighed down by strings of onions as he cycled from house to house was a common sight in the UK. 3. Denoting an animal. †a. slang. A Bengal tiger. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Panthera > panthera tigris (tiger) tigera1000 Johnny1814 man-eater1835 (Old) Stripes1885 1814 Morning Post 21 Oct. We entered the jungle, and soon caught a sight of three Johnnies. b. The gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua. Also more fully Johnny penguin. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Sphenisciformes or penguin > [noun] > member of genus Pygoscelis (gentoo) gentoo1820 Johnny1832 ringed penguin1894 Adélie penguin1901 Adélie1907 1832 G. M. Goodridge Narr. Voy. South Seas 34 The Johnnys build their nests superior to either of the others, among the long grass. 1898 Daily News 19 Apr. 6/2 Reading the following paragraph on penguins—or Johnnies as they are familiarly called. 1954 W. B. Alexander Birds of Ocean (ed. 2) 155 At the Falkland Islands it [sc. the gentoo penguin] is usually known as the ‘Johnny’. 2013 G. Francis Empire Antarctica ii. 24 The gnarly sealers who worked the sub-antarctic called these birds ‘Johnny Penguin’. c. U.S. regional. A small freshwater darter of the percid subfamily Etheostomatinae; esp. (more fully Johnny darter) Etheostoma nigrum. Also: a sculpin of the Pacific coast; esp. (more fully tidepool Johnny) Oligocottus maculosus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > member of subfamily Etheostominae darter1842 Johnny1875 rainbow darter1876 1875 D. S. Jordan in 6th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana 1874 213 Percina... Barred Darters... Hog Fish. Johnny. Jack Pike. 1882 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1881 4 59 Oligocottus maculosus Grd.—Johnny. 1912 A. B. Comstock Handbk. Nature Study I. ii. ii. 177/1 The johnny darters are, with the sticklebacks, the most amusing little fish in the aquarium. 1941 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Sea of Cortez xxi. 206 The sharp spines of an urchin may protect a tide-pool johnny from a larger preying fish. 2009 Amer. Currents Winter 21/1 Tank-care of Johnnies is quite simple. 4. slang. The penis. Cf. John n. 6, John Thomas n. 2.In quot. ?1833 with punning allusion to jingling Johnny n. (a) at jingling adj. 2. to give (someone) the Johnny: (of a man) to have sexual intercourse with (someone). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis weapona1000 tarsec1000 pintleOE cock?c1335 pillicock?c1335 yard1379 arrowa1382 looma1400 vergea1400 instrumentc1405 fidcocka1475 privya1500 virile member (or yard)?1541 prickc1555 tool1563 pillock1568 penis1578 codpiece1584 needle1592 bauble1593 dildo1597 nag1598 virility1598 ferret1599 rubigo?a1600 Jack1604 mentula1605 virge1608 prependent1610 flute1611 other thing1628 engine1634 manhood1640 cod1650 quillity1653 rammer1653 runnion1655 pego1663 sex1664 propagator1670 membrum virile1672 nervea1680 whore-pipe1684 Roger1689 pudding1693 handle?1731 machine1749 shaft1772 jock1790 poker1811 dickyc1815 Johnny?1833 organ1833 intromittent apparatus1836 root1846 Johnson1863 Peter1870 John Henry1874 dickc1890 dingusc1890 John Thomasc1890 old fellowc1890 Aaron's rod1891 dingle-dangle1893 middle leg1896 mole1896 pisser1896 micky1898 baby-maker1902 old man1902 pecker1902 pizzle1902 willy1905 ding-dong1906 mickey1909 pencil1916 dingbatc1920 plonkerc1920 Johna1922 whangera1922 knob1922 tube1922 ding1926 pee-pee1927 prong1927 pud1927 hose1928 whang1928 dong1930 putz1934 porkc1935 wiener1935 weenie1939 length1949 tadger1949 winkle1951 dinger1953 winky1954 dork1961 virilia1962 rig1964 wee-wee1964 Percy1965 meat tool1966 chopper1967 schlong1967 swipe1967 chode1968 trouser snake1968 ding-a-ling1969 dipstick1970 tonk1970 noonies1972 salami1977 monkey1978 langer1983 wanker1987 ?1833 Swell, or Slap-up Chaunter 13 Then you lay down, and I'll lay upon ye, And I'll play you a tune with my gingling Johnny. ?1889 ‘C. Deveureux’ Vénus in India I. 39 How soft..did her cunt feel, as inch by inch I buried Johnnie in it. a1948 Alphabet Song in V. Randolph & G. Legman Blow Candle Out (1992) 618 S is for safety that is made of fish skin, It usually breaks when you shove Johnny in. 1992 P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 138 I'd give her the johnny and no mistake! I'm the man would slip the boy in there double quick! 2011 @AdrianWarlick 3 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) You tell all the girls how small his Johnny is. 5. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Usually with lower-case initial. A toilet, a lavatory; = John n. 7. Cf. jakes n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory closet1496 water closet1736 water closet1747 throne room1787 W.C.1815 netty1825 convenience1841 Johnny1847 lavabo1852 restrooma1856 small room1858 cloakroom1865 lavatory1874 bathroom1883 toilet1886 can1900 place1902 lav1913 washroom1919 head1920 lavvy1922 dike1923 smallest room1930 John1931 khazi1932 loo1940 biffy1942 Wa1953 shitcan1954 commode1958 cludgie1961 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 485/1 Johnny.., a jakes. These terms are clearly connected with each other. 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) iv. 98 Kitty Hofman came in the johnny. 1971 D. Conover One Man's Island 65 Why, oh, why, do little boys (and big ones) rush to a johnny when nature provides opportunity everywhere? 2002 J. Karon In this Mountain iv. 65 Just sit down right here and fool with it while I go to the johnny. 6. U.S. colloquial. Usually with lower-case initial. A hospital gown. Frequently in hospital johnny. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > other footmantlec1405 cover-slut1639 Johnny1920 smock1938 1920 Boston Sunday Globe 9 May 52/4 If you wish to use your own night gowns while there I believe you may... I am going to wear the hospital ‘johnnies’ while there. 1958 Amer. Speech 33 75 The student nurse who showed me to my room paused at the door and said, ‘Just a minute and I'll go get you a johnny’. 2008 A. Proulx in New Yorker 9 June 81 Shaina Lister,..slinking and wincing, still in her hospital johnny, down the back stairs of Mercy Maternity to the street. 7. British slang. Usually with lower-case initial. A condom; = rubber johnny n. at rubber n.¹ Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > contraception > [noun] > devices or methods sponge1823 French tickler1905 Gräfenberg ring1930 male condom1938 skin1956 Johnny1963 internal condom1969 female condom1982 contragestive1987 Femidom1989 1963 R. Gosling in New Society 18 Apr. 9 We asked for sex and were offered a packet of johnnies. 1970 Times Educ. Suppl. 4 Dec. 23/3 At 50..things became much warmer, and went up by a carefully graded system to 100, which, my informant wrote, ‘is rightly reserved for full intercourse without a johnny’. 2003 R. Bean Honeymoon Suite 47 Irene: Have you got any johnnies? Eddie: Jesus Christ on a raft! Johnnies? You do want kids don't yer? Phrases Phrases in which Johnny forms part of a colloquial name or nickname for a particular (type of) person or thing. Johnny Head-in-the-Air n. (also Johnny-Head-in-Air) (a nickname for) a person (esp. a man) who is dreamy, absent-minded, or unworldly; cf. head-in-air adj. 1. [Apparently after German Hans-guck-in-die-Luft (1857 or earlier in Struwwelpeter), perhaps itself after Hans-guck-in-die-Welt (18th cent. or earlier), the name later given to the adventurous hero of a 16th-cent. romance.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > one who daydreams musardc1330 John-a-dreams1603 air-monger1628 castle-builder1711 daydreamer1750 castle-hunter1752 Alnaschar1800 reverist1824 stargazer1843 Johnny Head-in-the-Air?1851 pipe-dreamer1899 head-in-air1932 Walter Mitty1947 Mitty1953 ?1851 tr. H. Hoffmann Eng. Struwwelpeter (ed. 4) 21 (title) The story of Johnny Head-in-Air. 1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem i. 14 What happier place For Johnny Head-in-Air, Who never would hear Time mumbling at the base? 1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties xvi. 225 Yet he was not a Johnny-Head-in-the-Air; he had a shrewd grasp of the contemporary scene. 2017 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. Oh, very clever. But they are all Johnny Head-in-The-Airs. Johnny-jump-up n. North American any of several wild or cultivated pansies or violets (genus Viola).Cf. Johnny jumper n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers pansyc1450 heartsease1530 pansy flower1530 three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548 bulbous violet1578 love-in-idleness1578 sweet violet1578 pensea1592 cull-me-to-you1597 dog's tooth violet1597 dog violet1597 kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597 live in idleness1597 wild violet1597 yellow violet1597 love-and-idle1630 love-in-idle1664 trinity1699 fancy1712 wood violet1713 marsh violet1753 tree violet1753 kiss-me-at-the-gate1787 bird's-foot violet1802 Parma violet1812 Johnny-jump-up1827 stepmother1828 Neapolitan violet1830 garden gate1842 butterfly pea1848 kissa1852 pinkany-John1854 viola1871 kiss-me1877 pink-eyed John1877 face and hood1886 roosterhead1894 trout-lily1909 1827 Casket Apr. 152/1 The cheerful looking lady slipper, and sweet little johnny jump-up are given as the best specimens for examination. 1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) iii. 48 Under foot the ground teemed with lupine and phlox and those large scentless violets which the natives call ‘Johnny-jump-ups’. 2006 Saltscapes (Canada) Mar. 86/2 There will also be violets and Johnny-jump-ups to add some colour. Johnny-one-note n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a name for) a person who specializes in or concentrates on only one area of activity, or has competence in only one limited subject.Popularized by a song in the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms, telling the story of a singer who can only sing one note; see quot. 1937¹. ΚΠ 1937 L. Hart Johnny One Note (sheet music) 3 Poor Johnny One-Note Yelled willy-nilly Until he was blue in the face,—For holding one note was his ace.] 1937 N.Y. Times 26 July 17/6 Céline is a ‘Johnny One-Note’... ‘I am very limited,’ he said, ‘in what I can do. I can only write nightmares.’ 2018 @musicaamazigh 22 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) She's a johnny-one-note... She's not a well-rounded Democrat. Her interests and expertise are limited. Compounds C1. Prefixed to a noun to form a nickname or generic name for a person representing, embodying, or associated with the second element; frequently denoting a person from a foreign country. Often derogatory or in contemptuous use. Cf. Jack n.² Compounds 1.Some more established uses of this type are treated as main entries. ΚΠ 1838 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. June 370 Jonny Frenchman lost no time in serving it out to us from every gun he could bring to bear. 1900 Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio) 8 June Johnny Jap is ‘civilizing’ fast. 1991 Independent 5 May 20/4 The South African police seem not to have heard that Johnny Boer is supposed to behave nicely to the black majority these days. 2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand (2002) 397 Littell ran over fast. The cops saw him. Looks traveled—check Johnny Fed. C2. Johnny Arab n. (also with lower-case initial in the first element) British slang (offensive) (a generic name for) an Arab man, esp. a soldier; Arab troops collectively. ΚΠ 1939 R. Courtney Palestine Policeman 13 A man who could bluff his way into the country like that might be the sort of man to bluff some of the johnny-Arabs who were giving the Administration such trouble. 2007 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 8/4 ‘Good job Johnny Arab didn't threaten to shoot his teddy bear or he would have completely folded,’ one colleague wrote. Johnny Armstrong n. [with punning allusion to arm n.¹ and strong adj., perhaps after Johnie Armstrong, the hero of a traditional ballad (mid 17th century or earlier) of the same name] slang rare the action of pulling something which requires strength; hard physical work. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > work involving or involved in pully-hauly1820 Johnny Armstrong1922 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > involving pulling Johnny Armstrong1922 1922 Notes & Queries 9 Sept. 206/2 Johnny Armstrong, the action of ‘pulling’ or restraining a horse. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 66/2 Johnny Armstrong, any hard work involving pulling or hauling. Johnny Bull n. a name given to the English nation, or Britain, personified; a (typical) English or British person; = John Bull n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] EngleeOE EnglishOE English-Saxona1387 Anglea1398 Southron1488 England1569 Anglo-Saxon1602 John Bull1748 Johnny Bull?1762 Southronya1795 Bull1825 Englishry1856 ?1762 A. M. E. Cooke King cannot Err Epil. 29 O ye Gods, I swear by Johnny Bull. 1814 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 24 Dec. When Johnny Bull heard of the capture of the Frolic by the Wasp, he felt quite waspish. 1907 H. Pendexter Tiberius Smith xiii. 240 We..were pleased on reaching Oroya to find a choice and convivial cluster of Yankees and Johnny Bulls, all civil engineers. 2001 Observer (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Business section) 7 Like Johnny Bull, we're supposed to cherish our sovereignty and wave fists at a Brussels threatening great national institutions. Johnny Chinaman n. now archaic or in humorous or ironic use (usually considered offensive) (a generic name for) a Chinese man; the Chinese nation personified; cf. sense 2d and John Chinaman n. at John n. Compounds 1a. ΚΠ 1840 J. S. Henshaw Around World II. viii. 146 Johnny Chinaman had applied so well the practice of Johnny Bull in planting, that he was able to teach his teacher. 1911 Boys' Life Dec. 43/1 We'll have to watch Johnny Chinaman closer than ever. 2012 J. Burdett Vulture Peak xiv. 103 The more one eats and drinks at the Hong Kong Club, the more of one's dope Johnny Chinaman has to smoke so he can haul one up the hill afterward, ha, ha. † Johnny Company n. British slang Obsolete the East India Company. ΚΠ 1809 Ld. Minto Let. 15 May in Lord Minto in India (1880) viii. 184 To save Johnny Company's cash. 1866 Belfast News-let. 24 July For the first time..since the change took place in the Government of India, on ‘Johnny Company’ being sent to the right-about, an Indian Budget was laid..before the House of Commons. Johnny Gurkha n. British slang (originally and chiefly Military) (a generic name for) a Gurkha; Gurkhas collectively. ΚΠ 1894 Baily's Mag. Nov. 342/2 My orderly, a sporting little ‘Johnnie Gurkha,’ slipped in the gaff. 1930 in Mod. Asian Stud. 16 (1982) 480 Johnny Gurkha commands the greatest respect in mofassil Bengal as a fighting man. 2016 Sc. Daily Mail (Nexis) 10 Feb. 49 It is known that a certain Johnny Gurkha was once a member of the SAS. Johnny Hop n. [probably rhyming slang for cop n.⁵; compare slightly earlier John Hop n. at John n. Compounds 1a] Australian and New Zealand slang (now rare) (a generic name for) a policeman; = John Hop n. at John n. Compounds 1a; cf. sense 2f. ΚΠ 1908 Ballarat (Victoria) Star 23 May 3/2 They came to see Sir A. J. P. About the local ‘cop’, Whose name is spelt like Weppener—A foreign ‘Johnny Hop.’ 1943 Otaki (N. Z.) Mail 12 Mar. He's six feet two is Johnny Hop, His weight is fifteen stone, And that he is a stalwart cop He's very proud to own. Johnny Sepoy n. now historical and rare (a generic name for) a native Indian soldier serving in the Indian Army under the authority of the East India Company or (later) the British Crown; spec. one fighting against the British in the Indian Rebellion (1857–8); such soldiers collectively; cf. sense 2h. ΚΠ 1857 Let. 2 Dec. in Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser (1858) 23 Jan. 5/2 Oh, they have such a grudge against Johnny Sepoy. 1858 Let. 13 June in Ipswich Jrnl. 7 Aug. There still appear to be a very large number of these Johnny Sepoys knocking about. 1947 Daily Mail 7 Feb. 2/4 Johnny Sepoy..is no conscript but a volunteer. 1985 S. Hunter Spanish Gambit xxxiv. 236 Imagine the world of Johnny Sepoy, sent around the globe to die for a king he didn't know. Johnny Turk n. colloquial (offensive) a Turkish man, esp. a soldier; Turkish troops collectively; cf. sense 2g.In quot. 1836: a generic name given to an Arab man. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Turkey > [noun] turkeina1330 Turka1400 Turkman1481 Ottoman1546 Turkisher1607 Ottomanic1614 Ottomitea1616 Othman1787 Johnny Turk1836 Johnny1854 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Turkish janissary1615 Arnaut1717 Johnny Turk1836 Johnny1854 Abdul1870 1836 G. Jones Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, & Balbec 86 Johnny Turk, here, lengthen this stirrup for me. 1854 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 30 Dec. 10/1 Even poor Johnny Turk is better off than we are. 1919 Mr. Punch's Hist. Great War 24 Now it is the turn of ‘Johnny Turk’, who has had his knock on the Suez Canal. 2005 P. Taylor Now & in Hour of our Death vi. 60 It is a rather promising sign that Johnny Turk and a Greek are going into business together over here. Johnny Woodser n. Australian and New Zealand slang (now rare) a person who drinks alone, to avoid buying other people a drink; a drink taken on one's own; = Jimmy Woodser n. at Jimmy n.² 4. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > taken on one's own Jimmy Woodser1892 Johnny Woodser1892 1892 Singleton (New S. Wales) Argus 13 Aug. The man who goes to a public-house and has a drink alone is called a ‘Johnny Woodser’ or ‘hatter’—the inference being that he is too mean to treat those whom he meets at the bar. 1899 Truth (Sydney) 21 May 5/6 I think I'll have a tiddly Johnny Woodser. 1943 H. E. Beros Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels 19 You could bet he was a Johnny Woodser soaking Jungle Juice. C3. In the names of plants and animals. Johnny-cock-horse n. U.S. regional (now rare) a mantis (family Mantidae). ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 356 Rear Horse, the vulgar name, at the South, for the orthopterous insect called the Mantis, Camel Cricket, or Johnny Cock-horse. 1888 D. A. Payne Recoll. Seventy Years xxxi. 307 A ‘hobby-horse’, as some people call the insect, or a ‘Johnny-cock-horse’, as others call it, was in a cluster of dahlias. 1953 R. Molloy Multitude of Sins vii. 59 ‘Don't stand there looking like a Johnny-cock-horse..’. ‘But—’ Margaret protested. It was barely possible that she resented being compared to a praying mantis. Johnny jumper n. North American any of several pansies or violets (genus Viola); esp. the heartsease, V. tricolor.Cf. Johnny-jump-up n. at Phrases. ΚΠ 1840 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer June 91/1 Some teazing fine coxcomb, with sweet williams, gay; Sweet-balm, johnny-jumpers, and bob-run-away. 1909 Good Housek. Mar. 387/1 There was a veritable carpet of large lavender violets along the edge, but when we examined them more closely we found them to be one-colored lavender ‘Johnny jumpers’. 2014 J. Lust Herb Bk. 324 Pansy (Viola tricolor) Common Names: Garden violet, heartsease, Johnny Jumper, stepmother. Johnny Magorey n. (also Johnny McGory, Johnny McGorey, Johnny McGrorey) Irish English a fruit of the dog rose, Rosa canina, or (sometimes) of the hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna; a rose hip, a haw. [The second element is probably ultimately < Irish mogóir, †mugóire haw, rose hip (Early Irish mucor kind of berry or haw, of uncertain origin), with remodelling (within English) after the surname McGorey (Irish Mac Gothraidh).] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > poisonous berries poison berry1672 Johnny Magorey1855 1855 J. McCarroll New Gauger iv, in Anglo-Amer. Mag. Mar. 249/1 I..filled my pockets, in the early frost, with sloes as big as Johnny Magories. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 166 If you didn't know risky putting anything into your mouth. Poisonous berries. Johnny Magories. 1995 R. Wall Dict. & Gloss. Irish Lit. Revival 88 Johnny Magorey / McGory (magories), a hip, a dog-haw, the berry of the dog-rose; a rhyme used to tease young children. C4. johnny bag n. British slang A condom; cf. sense 7. ΚΠ 1965 New Society 14 Jan. 16/1 As regards birth control they all said it was easy to get ‘Johnny bags’ at the barbers. 2014 B. Conaghan When Mr Dog Bites 276 Get in there, my son. Give her one for the lads. Make sure you wear a Johnny-bag. johnny-house n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern) an outside toilet, a privy, an outhouse; cf. sense 5. ΚΠ 1937 High Point (N. Carolina) Enterprise 25 Apr. 10/3 Conversation, in my opinion, should be kept on a much higher level than Johnny houses and venereal diseases. 1994 K. Lasky Mem. of Bookbat ix. 75 Gammy's house didn't have an indoor bathroom. I liked that. You had to walk up to the johnny house. 2018 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz.-Mail (Nexis) 28 Apr. 5 c It was an old, Jenny Lind house, with a tar-paper roof, which sometimes leaked, surrounded by the johnny-house and tool house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1648
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