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johnny
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun johnny has 1 sense
- johnny(n = noun.person) greyback, johnny reb, reb, rebel - `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms; Array is a kind of confederate soldier
CIDE DICTIONARY
johnny, n.
- A familiar diminutive of John. [1913 Webster]
- A sculpin. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
johnny, n. (pl. -ies) Brit. colloq. a fellow; a man.
Idiom
johnny-come-lately colloq. a recently arrived person.
Etymology
familiar form of the name John
THESAURUS
johnny
Adamite, WC, backhouse, basement, bastard, bathroom, bedpan, being, bird, body, bugger, can, cat, chamber, chamber pot, chap, character, chemical closet, chemical toilet, closet, comfort station, commode, convenience, crapper, creature, customer, duck, earth closet, earthling, feller, fellow, groundling, guy, hand, head, homo, human, human being, individual, jasper, jerry, john, johnny house, joker, jordan, lad, latrine, lavatory, life, living soul, loo, man, mortal, necessary, nose, one, outhouse, party, person, personage, personality, piss pot, potty, potty-chair, powder room, privy, rest room, single, somebody, someone, soul, stool, stud, tellurian, terran, throne, thunder mug, toilet, toilet room, urinal, washroom, water closet, worldling
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