johnny

plural johnnies

1. IrelandUKslangA condom.

   Synonyms: condom, toilet

2. New ZealandderogatoryAn inexperienced new worker, usually an immigrant.

   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.

   1913, Katherine Mansfield, Millie

3. New EnglandA hospital gown: a gown with a back opening closed with snaps or ties, worn by hospital patients.

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

   1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

4. USdatedslangSynonym of john: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot.

   Kitty Hofman came in the johnny.

   1935, John O'Hara, chapter IV, in Appointment in Samarra, page 98

   1 more example

   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.

   1935, John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8, Ch. ix, page 279

   Synonyms: john

5. IrelandarchaicslangA half-glass of whisky.

   [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.'

   1867, William Dool Killen, Memoir of John Edgar, page 108

plural Johnnys · plural Johnnies · alternative Johny

1. A diminutive of the male given name John.

plural Johnnys · plural Johnnies · alternative Johny

1. slangA jack (playing card).
2. abbreviationellipsisinformalEllipsis of Johnny Reb (“Confederate soldier in the American Civil War”).
3. slangAn Englishman.
4. slangA fellow, a man.

   We met in the desert, and we headed 'em off, and the other Johnnies herded 'em behind.

   1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Tragedy of the Korosko

   1 more example

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

   1929, Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery