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Rum-Johnnies

Rum-Johnnies is the plural of Rum-Johnny.

Meaning of Rum-Johnny

Noun

Rum-Johnny (plural Rum-Johnnies)

  1. (India, historical) A native who loitered about the wharves of Calcutta seeking employment as a servant with newly arrived Europeans.
    • At length, one of my own domestics informed me, that he was a Rum-Johnny who had been discharged from my service, in which he held the office of mosaulchy, (or linkboy,) for theft.1810, Thomas Williamson, The East India Vade-mecum, page 168

Questions about Rum-Johnnies

What is Rum-Johnnies the plural of?
Rum-Johnnies is the plural of Rum-Johnny.

Words near Rum-Johnnies in the dictionary

  1. rum tum ditty
  2. rum-dum
  3. rum-dumb
  4. rum-dumm
  5. rum-dums
  6. Rum-Johnnies
  7. Rum-Johnny
  8. rum-pum-pum-pum
  9. rum-runner
  10. rum-runners
  11. rum-tum

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