单词 | johnny foreigner |
释义 | Johnny Foreignern. British colloquial (derogatory). (A name for) a foreigner, a person who is not British; a personification of foreign people.In later use usually used ironically with reference to British xenophobic attitudes. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > stranger or outsider > from another country outlandishOE WelshmanlOE outlandish manc1300 foreign?a1400 strangerc1460 foreigner1483 outborna1557 tramontane1593 transmarine1596 outlander1598 outlandisher1599 exotic1651 Outalian1668 furriner1849 Dutchman1857 Uitlander1892 Johnny Foreigner1899 non-patrial1971 1899 Chums 24 May 626/2 ‘Now,’ muttered Billy, ‘you Johnny foreigners will get cold pudding in three minutes.’ 1955 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 May vi. 13/2 If Britain is to survive, he [sc. a Cockney gas worker] tells his hearers, ‘everybody, the worker and the boss, all's got to get together to give Johnny Foreigner the stuff to put in his shop windows.’ 1970 Economist 12 Dec. 64/3 Britain is ready for any fiendish tricks Johnnie Foreigner may dream up. 1996 Re: Relationships are Evil in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet newsgroup) 23 May We have to keep the side up while all these johnny foreigners are being emotional and falling apart all over the place. 2017 York Press (Nexis) 29 Nov. Britain's problems lay with home policies but oh how convenient to blame Johnny Foreigner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899 |
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