Meaning of johnny | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A condom.
   Ireland, UK, slang
2. A jack (playing card).
   slang
3. A diminutive of the male given name John.
4. An inexperienced new worker, usually an immigrant.
   New-Zealand, derogatory
5. Ellipsis of Johnny Reb (“Confederate soldier in the American Civil War”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
6. A hospital gown: a gown with a back opening closed with snaps or ties, worn by hospital patients.
   New-England
7. An Englishman.
   slang
8. Synonym of john: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot.
   US, dated, slang
9. A fellow, a man.
   slang
10. A half-glass of whisky.
    Ireland, archaic, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“"Like the Persian Johnny," said Jimmy, "who went about wailing for fresh worlds to conquer."”

“Willie Cox said they found him in the barn, shot bang through the head, and the young English johnny who'd been on the station learning farming - disappeared.”

“His hand shook. A little water spilled down the front of the hospital johnny Sean wore.”

“The women's toilet (as distinguished from the ladies' room in a speakeasy, the johnny at school, the little girls' room at a party in an apartment, and the wash-my-hands on a train) was clean enough.”

“Kitty Hofman came in the johnny.”

“[H]e declared, like a real Irishman, that 'if he were a living man when he died, he would not give a single johnny of whisky either at his wake or his funeral.'”

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