joanie
joanie noun: a small ornament of glass or china.
Noun (1)
joanie (plural joanies)
- A small ornament of glass or china.
- "Your dogs!" cried Mr. Bridle. "You ninnyhammer! Why, us could buy a pack of they joanies in Newton for half-a-crown."1901, Eden Phillpotts, The Good Red Earth: A Novel, Doubleday, Page & Co., page 134
- 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.1903 November 18, “Small Talk of the Week”, in The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume XLIV, number 564, London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch, →OCLC, page 154, column 2
Proper noun capitalized: Joanie
Joanie
- A diminutive of the female given name Joan, from French.
Noun (2) capitalized: Joanie
Joanie (plural Joanies)
- A young woman who dresses in an out-of-date and unfashionable manner.
- 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?1982 October 28, Valley Mom [pseudonym], “Down in the valley, the valley so excellent...”, in Daily Record, volume 83, number 126, Morristown, N.J.: Morristown Daily Record, Inc., →OCLC, page 25
- 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.1983 February, “Review of Books”, in Art in America, New York, N.Y.: Art In America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15
Examples of joanie in a sentence
- Lady Romilly also writes both prose and poetry, and has made a collection of old-fashioned pottery known to rustics as "joanies".1906 April 29, “Bridal and Other Gowns”, in The New York Times, volume 55, number 17627, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
- 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.1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, London: Hutchinson & Co., page 224:
- The 'joanies' began to deteriorate in the last decades of the century, the boy and girl figures beginning to acquire an odious simpering quality.1965, Mary Peter, Collecting Victoriana, Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, published 1968, page 103:
Forms of joanie
| plural | joanies |
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| plural | Joanies |
Origin of joanie
From Joan + -ie. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessy, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Possibly a reference to Joanie Cunningham, a character from the US sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), set in the 1950s and 1960s. Compare Joan (“a placeholder or conventional name for a younger lower-class woman”).
Words that rhyme with joanie
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Questions about joanie
- What does joanie mean?
- Joanie means a small ornament of glass or china.
- How do you use joanie in a sentence?
- Lady Romilly also writes both prose and poetry, and has made a collection of old-fashioned pottery known to rustics as "joanies".
- What part of speech is joanie?
- Joanie can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of joanie?
- The plural of joanie is joanies.
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