johnnies

Noun

johnny (plural johnnies)

1. (Ireland, UK, slang) A condom.

   Synonyms:

   condom, toilet

2. (New Zealand, derogatory) An 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-England) A 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. (US, dated, slang) Synonym of john: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot.
   • 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. (Ireland, archaic, slang) A 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

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