JOHNNY

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• JOHNNY (noun)
  The noun JOHNNY has 1 sense:

1. 'Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; 'greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms

  Familiarity information: JOHNNY used as a noun is very rare.

• JOHNNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

'Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; 'greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

greyback; Johnny; Johnny Reb; Reb; Rebel

Hypernyms ("Johnny" is a kind of...):

Confederate soldier (a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the grammar-school, and a towardly child.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“He’s no Johnny Raw, certainly,” said Sir John, shaking his head.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When they can bend my war-bow, and bring down a squirrel at a hundred paces, I send them to take service under Johnny Copeland, the Lord of the Marches and Governor of Carlisle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Finally he took a wrong turn and ran a few steps past me, towards the hamlet, crying, “Johnny, Black Dog, Dirk,” and other names, “you won't leave old Pew, mates—not old Pew!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Give the Johnny Raw his breakfast. Chuck him in among his own cinders! Sharp’s the word, or you’ll see the back of him.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)