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{ "etymology_text": "UK late-20th century. The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang says \"first recorded in 1990 but in use earlier\". From John or Johnny as a personified idea. Compare Johnny Canuck (“Canadian”), Johnny Crapaud (“Frenchman”), Johnny Reb (“Confederate American”).", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "head": "Johnny Foreigner" }, "expansion": "Johnny Foreigner", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English derogatory terms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English proper nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Personifications" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1983, Richard Ingrams, John Wells, Private Eye - Issues 550-575, page 70:", "text": "No wonder Johnny Foreigner lays in supplies of the stale bread rolls whenever he appears over the horizon.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1984 December 3, John Torode, “Why must training for tomorrow be a dead turn-off?”, in The Guardian, page 18:", "text": "Mr. King's message was that Johnny Foreigner does it better than us. In Germany, in Japan and in the United States, these bottlenecks just do not happen.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1999, James Chapman, Licence to thrill: a cultural history of the James Bond films:", "text": "A time when Johnny Foreigner knew his place. A time when beautiful women from other countries existed primarily to be seduced...", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2004, Charles Godfrey-Faussett, Footprint England:", "text": "...the constant threat of spontaneous outbreaks of singing on Centre Court by pop has-beens and the occasional ungentlemanly antics of Johnny Foreigner...", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Foreigners collectively; people who are not British." ], "links": [ [ "derogatory", "derogatory" ], [ "Foreigner", "foreigner" ], [ "British", "British" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, informal, derogatory) Foreigners collectively; people who are not British." ], "tags": [ "UK", "derogatory", "informal" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "alien" }, { "word": "outlander" }, { "word": "peregrine" }, { "word": "foreigner" } ], "word": "Johnny Foreigner" }
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