of note, With his snowy shirt-front and his dainty dust-coat.
1889. Sporting Times, 3 Aug. p. 1. col. 1. Well, I'll put it practically to you. A straight line is the way you johnnies will go to the canteen when I've done with you.
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 23 Sept. p. 2, col. 3. Now to the johnny in the stalls, now to the Arry' in the amphitheatre flew the honeyed tokens, until the air was overcast with them.
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 29 Oct. p. 7, col. 1. Mr. Blake said he was very fond of her and did not intend to leave her, as many a johnny would have done.
1890. Tit Bits, 3 Aug. p. 332, col. 3. A microcephalous youth, whose chief intellectual relaxation consists in sucking the head of a stick, thinks that his conversational style is brilliant when he calls a man a johnnie, a hero 'a game sort of a chappie,' and so on.
1890. Daily Telegraph, 4 Feb. The committee seriously discussed the feasibility of conferring with a high-class JOHNNIE.
1892. Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads, 'The Widow's Party', 57. Where have you been this while away, . . . Johnnie, my johnnie, aha!
1894. Percy White, Mr. Bailey Martin, p. 49. What snap your sister has got, and how she must mash all your local johnnies.
3. (Irish).—A half-glass of whisky.
4. (American).—See Johnny Reb.
Johnny-Bum, subs. (old).—A
jack-ass.—GROSE (1785); Lex.
Bal. (1811).
Johnny-Cake, subs. (American).—A
New-Englander.
Johnny-Haultant, subs.
(nautical).—A merchants' sailor's
name for a man-o'-war's-man—Clark
Russell.
Johnny-Bates'-Farm.—See
Bates' Farm.
Johnny-Bono, subs. (East-end).—Generic
for an Englishman.
Johnny-Darby, subs. (old).—(1).
A policeman, (2) in pl. handcuffs.
Johnny Newcome, subs.
(common).—A new-born child.
Also (nautical) an inexperienced
youngster; landsman in general.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, [ed. 1862] p. 201. Now to young Johnny Newcome he seems to confine hers, Neglecting the poor little dear out at dry-nurse.
Johnny Raw, subs. (common).—1.
A recruit; a novice.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib, p. 18. A prettier treat Between two Johnny Raws 'tis not easy to meet.
1825. Scott, St. Roman's Well, xxv. Well, I can snuff a candle and strike out the ace of hearts; and so, should things go wrong, he has no Jack Raw to deal with, but Jack Mowbray.
1828. Jon Bee, Picture of London, p. 2. The designations of Johnny Raw, Greenhorn or Youkel, whereby they hope to lessen his pretensions to equality with themselves on the score of town-knowledge.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, p. 258 [ed. 1862]. Antonio, like most of those sage Johnny Raws.
1891. Stevenson, Kidnapped, p. 39. You took me for a country Johnnie Raw? with no more mother-wit or courage than a porridge-stick.
1887. Sydney (N. S. W.) Bulletin, 26 Feb. p. 12. He was a new-chum—a regular Johnny-raw.
2. (provincial).—A morning draught.
Johnny Reb (or Johnny), subs.
(American).—A soldier in the
Confederate ranks during the civil
war 1861-5. See Blue-bellies.
John Roberts, subs. phr. (Welsh).—See
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