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tomjohn

tomjohn is the alternative form of tonjon.

Meaning of tonjon

Noun

tonjon (plural tonjons)

  1. (South-Asia, historical) An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back.
    • The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared.1925, George Nathaniel Curzon, British Government in India, volume II, page 21
    Synonyms:
    jampan

Forms of tomjohn

pluraltomjohns

Origin of tomjohn

Variant of tonjon under influence from Tom and John as generic male names.

Questions about tomjohn

What is tomjohn the alternative form of?
Tomjohn is the alternative form of tonjon.

Words near tomjohn in the dictionary

  1. tomite
  2. tomites
  3. tomium
  4. Tomizaki
  5. Tomizakis
  6. tomjohn
  7. tomjohns
  8. TomKat
  9. Tomki
  10. Tomkies
  11. Tomkin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tomjohn (page history and authors); tonjon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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