Johnnyの意味・使い方・発音

Johnny

英 ['dʒɒnɪ] 美

Johnny: pet form of masc. proper name John (see -y (3)). Used as a contemptuous or humorous designation for some class or group of men from 1670s (it was the typical name in the North and the Northern armies for a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War). In the Mediterranean, it was a typical name for an Englishman by c. 1800; in the Crimean War, it became the typical name among the English for "a Turk," later extended to "an Arab" (who by World War II were using it in turn as the typical name for "a British man"). Johnny-come-lately first attested 1839.

2. Johnny and Guy are the greatest unacknowledged pop songwriters in Britain.: ジョニーとゲイは、英国で最も不起で、まだ一般に認められていないポップスクリエイターだ。

3. Johnny was the most persistent and most harmless of her admirers.: ジョニーは彼女を追う人の中で最も夢中で、最も心がない人の一人だ。