joanie

See also: Joanie

English

Noun

joanie (plural joanies)

1. (dialectal, historical) A small ornament of glass or china.
   • 1901, Eden Phillpotts, The Good Red Earth: A Novel, Doubleday, Page & Co., page 134:

     "Your dogs!" cried Mr. Bridle. "You ninnyhammer! Why, us could buy a pack of they joanies in Newton for half-a-crown."

   • 1903 November 18, “Small Talk of the Week”, in The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume XLIV, number 564, London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch, →OCLC, page 154, column 2:

     Miss Romilly shares her mother's interest in beautiful and artistic things. Her great hobby is the collecting of "Joanies," or cottage pottery, and she has some very valuable as well as peculiar examples in her delightful country home, Huntington Park, Herefordshire.

   • 1906 April 29, “Bridal and Other Gowns”, in The New York Times, volume 55, number 17627, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, unnumbered page:

     Lady Romilly also writes both prose and poetry, and has made a collection of old-fashioned pottery known to rustics as "joanies".

   • 1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, London: Hutchinson & Co., page 224:

     She thinks more of the joanies and gimcracks on her parlour mantelshelf than she do of you, and it's your duty in my opinion to plan a proper eye-opener for Rose.

   • 1965, Mary Peter, Collecting Victoriana, Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, published 1968, page 103:

     The 'joanies' began to deteriorate in the last decades of the century, the boy and girl figures beginning to acquire an odious simpering quality.