核心畫面
One way to picture johnny: the very common first name John, worn down into an everyday noun. In older British usage it simply meant 'a man, that fellow'. The other use — British slang for a condom — is a separate slang development, and the payload gives no line from 'a man' to it, so it is best learned as its own item rather than as a picture growing out of the name.
可以想成 johnny 是 John 這個很普通的名字被用久了，變成一個日常名詞：早期英式用法裡它就等於「那個男的、…更多收起
可以想成 johnny 是 John 這個很普通的名字被用久了，變成一個日常名詞：早期英式用法裡它就等於「那個男的、那傢伙」。另一個用法（英式俚語指保險套）是另外長出來的俚語，兩者之間沒有清楚可考的連結，所以與其硬編一個畫面，不如把它當成獨立的一項來記。原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Johnnyname/ˈd͡ʒɒn.i/
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A diminutive of the male given name John.
Johnnynoun/ˈd͡ʒɒn.i/
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slangA jack (playing card).
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slangAn Englishman.
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slangA fellow, a man.
- We met in the desert, and we headed 'em off, and the other Johnnies herded 'em behind.
- "Like the Persian Johnny," said Jimmy, "who went about wailing for fresh worlds to conquer."
johnnynoun/ˈd͡ʒɒn.i/
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slangA condom.
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derogatoryAn inexperienced new worker, usually an immigrant.
- Willie Cox said they found him in the barn, shot bang through the head, and the young English johnny who'd been on the station learning farming - disappeared.
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A hospital gown: a gown with a back opening closed with snaps or ties, worn by hospital patients.
- His hand shook. A little water spilled down the front of the hospital johnny Sean wore.
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datedslangSynonym of john: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot.
- The women's toilet (as distinguished from the ladies' room in a speakeasy, the johnny at school, the little girls' room at a party in an apartment, and the wash-my-hands on a train) was clean enough.
- Kitty Hofman came in the johnny.
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archaicslangA half-glass of whisky.
- [H]e declared, like a real Irishman, that 'if he were a living man when he died, he would not give a single johnny of whisky either at his wake or his funeral.'
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。