| 单词 | onion johnny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOnion 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. < as lemmas |
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