Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Australian A young animal, especially a baby kangaroo.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In coal-mining, a man specially appointed to set the timber in a stall or working while coal is being raised.
- n. Same as joe, 1.
- n. A young kangaroo.
- n. ‘A hewer of wood and drawer of water.’
- To insult (a person) by the cry of ‘joey.’
Wiktionary
- n. The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby or koala etc.
- n. The shorter word whose letters can be found within a kangaroo word.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Australian Any young animal, especially a young kangaroo.
- n. Australian A young child.
- n. British slang A three-penny piece.
Etymologies
- Unknown. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“With a hint of Forbidden Planet. joey is that wall-e? haha tootalufilms”
“Opossums are recent imports from Australia but now prolific, so that the word joey (in Australia a ` baby kangaroo ') for an opossum is likely to be recent.”
“Anyways - it's kinda funny coz i have a kinda ex called joey - so yeah its a bit of a joke amongst my girls!”
“The baby, called a joey, was born on October 25, 2006, but only recently left her puch for the outside world.”
“A "joey" pokes its head out from mama wallaby's pouch.”
“She raises the baby "joey" koalas from when they are tiny and then releases them back into the wild.”
“Female kangaroos usually only have one baby kangaroo (called a "joey") at a time.”
“but, something has to happen soon. i can't see all these places staying open; especially, once wood ranch bbq and lucille's open in chino hills within the next few months. these two places will take business away from bad bob's, smokin' joey's, original joey's on east end road as well as the few others in the area.”
“i thought the spin-off, "joey", was going to be all about his life in phoebe and mike's new midtown pay-for-flay sex dungeon, but i guess i was wrong.... posted by santos.”
“Yes | No | Report from joey. henry wrote 9 weeks 4 days ago soak in a mixture of milk, egg, and hotsauce overnite in fridge.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘joey’.
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Australasian mammals
Australasian mammals, monotremes, anteater, duckbill, echidna, giant anteater, ornithorhynchus, platypus, porcupine, water mole, carnivorous marsu..., banded anteater and 220 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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Scrabble People
Names and Persons (including derogatory)allowed by Scrabble
joey, ruth, guine..., joey, ruth, guinea, yid, jones, bob, jake, molly, looie, louie, erica and 13 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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Nickles, Dimes & Quarters
Words containing only the letters occupying the 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th and 25th positions of the alphabet (e, j, o, t, y). According to a fast search there isn't a single one which exclusively inclu...
toy jet, jetty, jeté, tete, ete, yet, joey, toe, tojo, jot, tote
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Baby Animals
chick, crocklets, whelp, foal, duckling, eaglet, hatchling, fingerling, fry, polliwog, gosling, cheeper and 21 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
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Friends
andy, jeff, debbie, stephen, sammy, guy, donald, bear, arthur, keith, joey, kim and 17 more...
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joeyday's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for joey.
reesetee Hmm.... *sipping espresso* Jan 27, 2008
asativum Having properties of coffee. Jan 26, 2008