Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A toilet.
- n. Slang A man who is a prostitute's customer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A common name for a man or boy, often used, like Jack,- its synonym, to designate a man or a boy in general or indefinitely, especially an awkward fellow.
Wiktionary
- n. slang A prostitute's client.
- n. slang, US A lavatory, toilet.
- n. slang An outhouse privy. Also johnny house.
- n. slang A name often used as a generic reference to a male of European, North-American, or Australian origin, while travelling in East Asia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A proper name of a man.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation
- n. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- n. youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)
- n. the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament
- n. a prostitute's customer
Etymologies
- From the name John. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“JOHN C. REILLY because we just can't get enough of hearing about jennifer aniston's sex life, john c. reilly admitted that during their sex scene in the good girl (yeah, i completely forgot that movie even existed too,) aniston essentially wore an entire suit of armor just so she wouldn't have to touch”
“Topic john = tm. createTopicBySubjectIdentifier (sid); o PHP: $john =”
“Bozo The Neoclown says: big john, is english your first language?”
Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’
“Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: big john is really a little worm.”
Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda
“Big man. oh lookie here another swooning spooned here, big john is a man around horse crap, and the republican t loves its crap.”
“March 7th, 2010 at 8: 31 pm just the bleepn facts says: bitblt says: buttblight keeps whining about being stoned for purity sins, but heyzeus was very clear in john 8 that behaving with the “judgment” against others and stoning was in itself was just as evil.”
“March 5th, 2010 at 1: 05 pm bitblt says: buttblight keeps whining about being stoned for purity sins, but heyzeus was very clear in john 8 that behaving with the “judgment” against others and stoning was in itself was just as evil.”
“Apr. 12th, 2010 08: 42 pm (UTC) mainstream cage match! lieutenant frederic henry vs captain john yossarian”
“IF you Repub fools would read the ENTIRE article, it states the funds will be paid back ... stop cryin ... john”
“I'm sure someone as smart as Clinton will still know how to use her brain john h”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘john’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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•Open List: Songboys
Inspired by gangerh's extremely addictive list songbirds, this is the same type list, but for male names. Same rules apply:
Names of boys in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the title...jack, jesse, jakey, john, arthur, nick, donald, bill, billy, gideon, riley, charlie and 95 more...
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People commonly known by their first ...
rembrandt, galileo, dante, beck, jewel, madonna, cher, saddam, elvis, usain, vangelis, michelangelo and 103 more...
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Shadowtailed Riverhorse
Etymology guessing game; the words are entered as the sum of their root meanings. Let the games begin!
little mouse, little sheath, handiwork, hairy cat, sea pig, the eye of the day, suckling, clothes bag, wild ass, jungle man, little sword, water vessel and 107 more...
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Boys Names
List of Boys names
danny, daniel, bobby, robert, chris, christopher, dan, bob, rob, jeff, jeffery, jeffrey and 105 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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Postscripture ✞
Terms associated with the Christianity, The Bible, etc. I have a related, but more narrow list called Imbible Code.
A related list is Words Associated With Jesus.apostole, pharaoh, sodom, babel, sabbath, baptize, cherub, elohim, lapsarian, crucifixion, nephilim, hosanna and 195 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also Fi...
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 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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Meet the Beetles!
"n. Any insect belonging to the order Coleoptera (which see). Sometimes, however, the term is used in a more restricted sense, as equivalent in the plural to Scarabœidœ, a tribe of this order embra...
beetle, beetles, Beetle, Beetles, black beetle, ground beetle, blister beetle, dung beetle, beetling-machine, Beetlejuice, Coleoptera, golden stag beetle and 90 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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Wordniks who've created a word-a-day ...
john, gangerh, ruzuzu, centurydictionaryfan, Prolagus, erinmckean, fbharjo, hernesheir, scrabblewotd, vanderpink, mollusque, blafferty and 6 more...
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Proper nouns that are admissible in S...
A good way to have an opponent make a bad challenge.
japan, texas, maya, brazil, delft, mikado, apache, pawnee, titian, egyptian, china, john
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Wordizens/Wordnikians
This list will allow you to leave comments for Wordies/Wordizens/Wordnikians, etc. Feel free to add your own name to the list. Also, you might want to link to your name-word on your profile (for an...
Rolig, yarb, blafferty, hernesheir, ruzuzu, sionnach, fbharjo, leaden, This account eith..., wordplayer, bilby, pterodactyl and 45 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for john.
bilby As a shadowtailed riverhorse, some of the possibilities are zany, jock, Yank. Aug 24, 2009
plethora See Our John. Apr 28, 2009
chained_bear "John Barbour" is a neat song by Great Big Sea.
"John Henry" is an old folk tune I have a few recordings of.
"Abraham, Martin and John" by Dion... "Sloop John B.," popularized by the Beach Boys... And one of the great songs from 1776 is "Sit Down, John." Feb 9, 2008
reesetee It was--just after we noticed that WeirdNet is doing weird things with our definitions. I named it after a strange guy I knew years ago named Edward (a.k.a. Headweird).
No offense to any Edwards out there. :-) Nov 15, 2007
chained_bear Much as I'd love to take credit, I think it was reesetee that came up with WeirdNet. Nov 15, 2007
skipvia Following an earlier discussion today, John is a username that is a capitonym. Nov 15, 2007
john Damn you, Riddley!
Actually, I hadn't thought to Wordie myself until now. At least I got the username :-)
WeirdNet (I love that coinage, CB), at it again. You'd think 'boys name' might be the first definition. Nov 15, 2007
seanahan Ouch John, not even the first one to list your own name. I picture you putting Wordie online like opening an amusement park, and Riddley runs past you to get into the line for the best roller coater. Nov 15, 2007