"demijohn" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɛmɪdʒɒn/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demijohn.wav [Southern-England] Forms: demijohns [plural]
Etymology: Partial calque of French dame-jeanne (literally “Lady Jane”), of uncertain origin. Note that the French Jeanne (“Jane, feminine of John”) has changed to the masculine form John, rather than the cognate English Jane. Etymology templates: {{pcal|en|fr|dame-jeanne|lit=Lady Jane}} Partial calque of French dame-jeanne (literally “Lady Jane”), {{m|fr|Jeanne||Jane, feminine of John}} Jeanne (“Jane, feminine of John”), {{m|en|John}} John, {{m|en|Jane}} Jane Head templates: {{en-noun}} demijohn (plural demijohns)
  1. A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork. Categories (topical): Vessels Synonyms: carboy, demi-john Translations (bottle): دَمَجَانَة (damajāna) [feminine] (Arabic), damageanã (Aromanian), дамаджана (damadžana) [feminine] (Bulgarian), damajoana [feminine] (Catalan), demižon [masculine] (Czech), vinballong [common-gender] (Danish), flasko (Esperanto), korvpudel (Estonian), damešaani (Finnish), dame-jeanne (French), tourie [feminine] (French), garrafón [masculine] (Galician), Glasballon (German), Korbflasche [feminine] (German), νταμιτζάνα (ntamitzána) [feminine] (Greek), demizson (Hungarian), damigiana [feminine] (Italian), داماجانه (damacana) (Ottoman Turkish), baniak [masculine] (Polish), gąsior [masculine] (Polish), garrafão [masculine] (Portuguese), damigeană [feminine] (Romanian), буты́ль (butýlʹ) [feminine] (Russian), бакла́жка (baklážka) [feminine] (Russian), демѝжа̄на [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), demìžāna [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), damajuana [feminine] (Spanish), damejeanne [common-gender] (Swedish), damahuwana (Tagalog), damacana (Turkish), bäsetaflad (Volapük)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.