joe

English Online Dictionary. What means joe‎? What does joe mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: jō
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəʊ/
• • (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒoʊ/
• Homophones: Jo, Joe, Zhou
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

From the proper name Joe.

Noun

joe (plural joes)

1. (informal) A male; a guy; a fellow.

2. (UK, slang) A spy, especially a double agent.
3. (historical) Synonym of johannes (“An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.”)

Alternative forms

• Joe

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Uncertain. See cup of joe for more.

Noun

joe (countable and uncountable, plural joes)

1. (chiefly US, informal) Coffee.

Related terms

• cup of joe

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

joe (plural joes)

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of jo (“a darling or sweetheart”)
   • 1836 Joanna Baillie The Phantom, Act 2. Provost, to a maidservant.

     I fear, my joe, the good that I can do him,
     Or ev'n the minister, if he were here,
     Would be but little.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• ioe

Pronoun

joe f (plural jai)

1. (third-person feminine singular pronoun, oblique case) her

Related terms

• jala
• joi (masculine)
• jai

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju/

Interjection

joe

1. (colloquial) bye

2. (colloquial) okay, sure

   Ik bel je later. -Joe. - I will call you later. -Okay.

3. (colloquial) thanks

   Mag ik je pen lenen? -Alsjeblieft. -Joe! - Can I borrow your pen. -There you go. -Thanks!

Norman

Alternative forms

• jaue, jouoe

Etymology

From Old French joe, from Vulgar Latin *ga(v)ota. Compare French joue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʒo], [ˈʒow]
• IPA^(key): [ˈʒu] (borrowed from French?)

Noun

joe f (plural joes)

1. cheek

References

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 724: “joue” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Delesques, Henri (1887) “joe”, in Dictionnaire de patois normand: […] (in French), page 374
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*gaba”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 5

Old French

Alternative forms

• jode (archaic)
• joude (archaizing silent ⟨d⟩?)
• joue, jouue, jowe, jouwe (forms reflecting introduction of antihiatic /w/, raising of /ɔ/ to /u/, or both)
• goe, goue⁠, gouhe⁠, gowe (⟨g⟩ either genuine northern /ɡ/ or Anglo-Norman graphy for /d͡ʒ/)
• ⁠joewe⁠, jewe⁠, ⁠joie⁠, ⁠joye⁠, ⁠yoe⁠, ⁠giue⁠ (unusual; some forms may reflect [ɔw]~[ɔj] interchange; ⟨y⟩ alt. graphy for /d͡ʒ/)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ga(v)ota. Attested from ca. 1100.

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔðə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈʒuə/

Noun

joe oblique singular, f (oblique plural joes, nominative singular joe, nominative plural joes)

1. cheek (esp. of a human)
2. jaw (esp. of an animal)

Descendants

• Middle French: joue
  • French: joue
    • →? Piedmontese: giova
• Norman: joe, jaue, jouoe
• Walloon: gawe
• → Middle English: jowe, jawe, geowe…
  • English: jaw

References

• “joe”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*gaba”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 5

Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju/

Pronoun

joe

1. Superseded spelling of yu.