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单词 johnny darm
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Johnny Darmn.

Brit. /ˈdʒɒnɪ dɑːm/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑni ˌdɑrm/
Forms:

α. 1800s Johnny Darby, 1800s– Jenny Darby.

β. 1800s jonny darmy, 1800s– Johnny Darmy.

γ. 1800s– Johnny Darm, 1800s– Johnnydarm.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: gendarme n.
Etymology: Alteration of gendarme n., with full or partial folk-etymological remodelling variously after the male forename Johnny, the female forename Jenny, and the surname Darby.
slang (chiefly British). Now historical.
In France or a French-speaking country: a paramilitary police officer, a gendarme. Also formerly: (in England) a policeman. Cf. Johnny n. 2f.In the form Jenny Darby originally an opprobrious name for any member of the new Metropolitan Police Force introduced by Sir Robert Peel in 1829.
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1830 Morning Advertiser 10 Aug. 3/4 He thereupon called aloud to the crowd, ‘Here's the b——y Jenny Darbys. We shall all be pulled and destroyed by the Jenny Darbys’.— (Laughter.) The Lord Mayor begged to know of the officer what was meant by Jenny Darbys. The officer said the defendant meant the French police, and although he called them by their French name, the Jenny Darbys, it was wonderful how the common people, what know'd little or no French, understood his meaning.
1831 Gallery 140 Comicalities I'm an Englishman, bred and born, and I sharnt submit to any o' your Johnny Darmies.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 21/2 Gensdarmes has been corrupted into the English slang as Johnny-Darbies, now applied as a nickname to policemen.
1888 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 10 Oct. 4/2 Informed an officer who happened to see me removing the plunder that I was a Johnny Darm over from France on extradition business. He swallowed the tale like a lamb, and allowed me to pass with my swag, bless him!
1912 Sporting Times 27 Apr. 4/3 I looked round to see if there was any o' them 'ere damned old Johnny Darmy's about.
1962 F. Mowat Black Joke (1973) vi. 88 Most of they French Johnnydarms knocks off work at suppertime.
2002 P. Rawlings Policing v. 106 The Jenny Darbies: the New Police.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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