单词 | johnny newcome |
释义 | Johnny Newcomen. 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1800 |
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