jone

See also: Jone, jonë, and Jonė

English

Alternative forms

• joan

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒoʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Verb

jone (third-person singular simple present jones, present participle joning, simple past and past participle joned)

1. (intransitive, transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, often followed by on) To good-naturedly make fun of (someone); to roast.

   To survive in the hood, you need to know how to jone.

   • 1940, Allison Davis, John Dollard, Children of Bondage: The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South, Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, page 226:

     note: Judy's clique "joans" him about his father's staying at home, not working, and giving his mother so many children; and about Lillie's and his other sisters' being "whores."

   • 1994, Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 23:

     Guys built respectable reps in the community if they could jone hard. They made fun of each other's tacky clothes, berated each other's ugly mamas, talked about each other's shabby houses—highlighted any flaw they could find while competing to put each other down.

   • 1996, Connie Briscoe, Big Girls Don't Cry, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 17:

     At school, these girls stood around on the edge of the playground wearing black leather jackets, sneaking cigarettes, and joning on each other.

   • 2023 August 25, Michael Lee, quoting Mark McCain, “USC’s Caleb Williams is a star for the NIL era”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2023:

     "He [Caleb Williams] was just talking to me, telling me I always got jokes, I'm always joaning on him. I tell him that's not going to stop," McCain said.

See also

• banter
• dozens
• Joanie
• josh
• roast
• signify

 

Old French

Adjective

jone m (oblique and nominative feminine singular jone)

1. Alternative form of juene

Noun

jone m or f

1. Alternative form of juene