Joanie
EigennameSubstantivin Dialogen belegt
A diminutive of the female given name Joan, from French.
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A diminutive of the female given name Joan, from French.
Herkunft
From Joan + -ie. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessy, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
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SlangA young woman who dresses in an out-of-date and unfashionable manner.
I mean phones are like mondo cool, because it's like you don't know what to wear until you check it out with at because they want you to show up looking like a joanie, you know?
My Mom, who takes night classes in painting and stuff at Valley College and knows about art, except she still wears totally base designer jeans with elastic butts and comes off like a total Joanie, has these other books by Judith Krantz, like Scruples and Princess Daisy.
You might want to stop being such a total Joanie and move the pony to the back of your head. I wonder if all those years of wearing the side pony has done brain damage? Maybe that would explain why you still wear it.
Nothing to report. No mites, no fleas, nothing," said Larry, "But some of the poor Joanies in the main room were scratching their necks like there was a company louse picnic. We baited some double-sticky tape and roach traps, but I doubt they'll catch anything."
Herkunft
Possibly a reference to Joanie Cunningham, a character from the US sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), set in the 1950s and 1960s. Compare Joan (“a placeholder or conventional name for a younger lower-class woman”).
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Joanie · A diminutive of the female given name Joan, from French.
joanna · A piano.Joanna · A female given name from Latin [in turn from Hebrew].Joanne · A female given name from French.