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单词 johnny newcome
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Johnny Newcomen.

Brit. /ˌdʒɒnɪ ˈnjuːkəm/, U.S. /ˌdʒɑni ˈn(j)ukəm/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Johnny n., new-come adj.
Etymology: < Johnny n. + new-come adj.Originally popularized as the name of a character in a series of satirical prints by Abraham James and others (compare quot. 1800 at sense 1).
1. Originally Caribbean. (A generic name for) a person who has newly come to a place; a recent arrival; a newcomer. Formerly also: †(a generic name for) a newborn baby (obsolete). Cf. Johnny-come-lately n. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > one who or that which is new to the scene
new mana1387
newcomerc1450
mushrooma1593
Johnny Newcome1800
new boy1847
new girl1853
Johnny-come-lately1855
newie1856
new bug1900
new-tick1934
Johnny-come-lately1946
1800 (Nat. Maritime Mus.: Michael Graham-Stewart Coll. ZBA2722) (title of engraving) Johnny New-come in the Island of Jamaica.
1833 United Service Jrnl. 11 i. 59 On first landing at Port Royal, a Johnny Newcome (as all strangers are there called)..will at once imagine himself transported into the community of Bedlamites.
1840 R. H. Barham Some Acct. New Play in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 308 Now to young ‘Johnny Newcome’ she seems to confine hers [sc. affections], Neglecting the poor little dear out at dry-nurse.
1888 Judy 10 Oct. 176/1 This venerable reptile..must even have looked upon Adam as a Johnny Newcome.
1967 Sunday Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 12 Nov. 17/2 The show's weakness is that it has lost the fresh eye of Johnny Newcome taking his first survey of the Jamaican scene.
2005 W. C. Rhys Welsh Song in Patagonia 131 Johnny Newcome however is shy and afraid.
2. (A generic name for) a new recruit; a novice. Cf. Johnny-come-lately n. 1, Johnny Raw n. 2. Now rare (chiefly Nautical).
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner
younglingOE
new-comeOE
novice1340
ginner?c1400
beginner1470
apprentice1489
prentice1489
infant1526
freshmana1557
intrant1560
enterer1565
puny?1570
weakling1575
new comeling1587
novist1587
incipient1589
puisne1592
abecedary1596
neophyte1600
abecedarian1603
bachelor1604
novelist?1608
alphabetary1611
breeching boy1611
tiro1611
alphabetarian1614
principiant1619
unexperienced1622
velvet head1631
undergraduatea1659
young stager1664
greenhorn1672
battledore boy1693
youngster1706
tironist1716
novitiatea1734
recruit1749
griffin1793
initiate1811
Johnny Newcome1815
Johnny Raw1823
griff1829
plebe1833
Johnny-come-lately1839
new chum1851
blanc-bec1853
fledgling1856
rookie1868
elementarian1876
tenderfoot1881
shorthorn1888
new kid1894
cheechako1897
ring-neck1898
Johnny1901
rook1902
fresh meat1908
malihini1914
initiand1915
stooge1930
intakea1943
cub1966
1815 D. Roberts (title) The military adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an account of his campaigns on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall.
1825 National Advocate (N.Y.) 12 Jan. The Colonel took the Johnny Newcome under his conduct to Antwerp.
1865 J. H. A. Bone Petroleum & Petroleum Wells 40 The Johnny Newcomes had to fight their way back to the bar, and deposit seventy-five cents for the bit of blue paste-board.
1920 I. Hornibrook Coxswain Drake of Seascouts vii. 79 Break out a chanty there—an' keep time to it, you lubberly Johnnie Newcomes!
1986 D. Pope Ramage's Challenge (2002) xv. 198 The movement of the hull and of the masts, as Paolo Orsini had learned during the first few days after joining the ship (a wide-eyed and very nervous ‘Johnny Newcome’), was what gave the Calypso her strength.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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