One way to hold this word: Joe is the plainest man's name in English, the name so many people have that it stops pointing at anyone in particular. Once a name belongs to everybody, it can be borrowed to mean anybody — any man, the public, the typical member of a group. Almost everything on this page can be seen growing out of that one fact.
From the word’s history
Joe is a short form of Joseph, which reached English through Middle English Ioseph and goes back to Hebrew יוֹסֵף; it is also used as a short form of Joel and Josiah. The name's ordinariness, not its meaning, is what the other uses lean on.
Joe 是 Joseph 的簡稱，這個名字經中古英文 Ioseph 進入英文，再往前可以追到希伯來文的 יוֹסֵף；它有時也是 Joel、Josiah 的簡稱。真正被後面幾個意思借走的，不是這個名字的原義，而是它「太常見」這件事。
Wiktionary, "joe"
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Joename/d͡ʒəʊ/
- 1
A diminutive of the male given names Joseph, Josiah, Joel, or Josias.
- "With a name like Joe," Joe always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying 'Joe's Bar and Grill'."
- With Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ decision to end his campaign on Wednesday, it’s now official: Former Vice President Joe Biden will be the Democratic presidential nominee this fall.
- 2
A surname.
Joenoun/d͡ʒəʊ/
- 1
informalA male; a guy; a fellow.
- I'm just an ordinary Joe.
- 2
archaicslangSynonym of Joe Miller (“an old joke”).
- O what "a Joe," — what an "old Joe!" — / A very "old Joe!" — / Old Joe Miller made the joke before, / But nothing tells better that ^([sic]) a good old Joe!
joenoun詞源 1/d͡ʒəʊ/
- 1
informalA male; a guy; a fellow.
- I'm just an ordinary joe.
- 2
slangA spy, especially a double agent.
- Name me a joe in a bad country ... who doesn't fall for a pretty face if she's on his side against the world.
- Soviet troops were permitted to enter the American sector, where they could easily capture and torture an agent to confirm the existence of a Joe house, then cripple American espionage efforts by kidnapping a nest of spies in one fell swoop.
- 3
historicalSynonym of johannes (“An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.”).
- I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes.
- Guineas, joes, half joes, doubloons, and pistoles of various origin constituted the gold currency, while the silver was mostly the Spanish American dollar and its fractions: the half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth, with the pistareen and half pistareen.
joenoun詞源 2/d͡ʒəʊ/
- 1
informalCoffee.
- In olden times, you'd wander down to Mom's Cafe for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home.
- 45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- Jo
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。