jane
/dʒeɪn
/noun informal, chiefly US
A woman: some jane had come out defending him, some bigwig’s wife...
- Not surprisingly, there are about three Joes for every Jane but even so, that means there are over 8 million Janes.
- Pretty much every Jane, Dick and Harry has a DVD writer in their PC system, DVD writers have become standard equipment.
Phrases
plain Jane
Origin
Early 20th century: from the given name Jane.
- green and gold
- green architecture
- green ash
- green audit
- Greenaway, Kate
- greenback
- Greenbacker
- Greenbackism
- Greenback party
- green bag
- green baize
- green-baized
- green ban
- green bass
- Green Bay
- green bean
- green belt
- Green Beret
- Greenbergian
- green bine
- green-blind
- green-blindness
- green-bone
- greenbottle
- green box