Meaning of Joanie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diminutive of the female given name Joan, from French.
2. A young woman who dresses in an out-of-date and unfashionable manner.
   US, slang
3. A small ornament of glass or china.
   dialectal, historical

Examples

“I mean phones are like mondo cool, because it's like you don't know what to wear until you check it out with at because they want you to show up looking like a joanie, you know?”

“My Mom, who takes night classes in painting and stuff at Valley College and knows about art, except she still wears totally base designer jeans with elastic butts and comes off like a total Joanie, has these other books by Judith Krantz, like Scruples and Princess Daisy.”

“You might want to stop being such a total Joanie and move the pony to the back of your head. I wonder if all those years of wearing the side pony has done brain damage? Maybe that would explain why you still wear it.”

“Nothing to report. No mites, no fleas, nothing," said Larry, "But some of the poor Joanies in the main room were scratching their necks like there was a company louse picnic. We baited some double-sticky tape and roach traps, but I doubt they'll catch anything."”

“"Your dogs!" cried Mr. Bridle. "You ninnyhammer! Why, us could buy a pack of they joanies in Newton for half-a-crown."”

“Miss Romilly shares her mother's interest in beautiful and artistic things. Her great hobby is the collecting of "Joanies," or cottage pottery, and she has some very valuable as well as peculiar examples in her delightful country home, Huntington Park, Herefordshire.”

“Lady Romilly also writes both prose and poetry, and has made a collection of old-fashioned pottery known to rustics as "joanies".”

“She thinks more of the joanies and gimcracks on her parlour mantelshelf than she do of you, and it's your duty in my opinion to plan a proper eye-opener for Rose.”

“The 'joanies' began to deteriorate in the last decades of the century, the boy and girl figures beginning to acquire an odious simpering quality.”

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