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Joanie
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joanie
English
Pronunciation
en əʊni 2
Etymology 1
From en Joan ie. en Ivanka Jan Janelle Janet Janey Janine Jeanette Jeanie Jeannette Jeannine Jen Jenna Jenny Jessy Jo Jody Juanita Shanae Sinead Vanna.
Proper noun
en female Joan French.
en Joany
Etymology 2
Possibly a reference to Joanie Cunningham, a character from the US sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), set in the 1950s and 1960s.joanie wzed3la n Compare en Joan a placeholder or conventional name for a younger lower-class woman.
Noun
en US slang Valleyspeak A young woman who dresses in an out-of-date and unfashionable manner.
en joanie
en Valley Mom [pseudonym] Down in the valley, the valley so excellent... Daily Record 126 Morristown, N.J. Morristown Daily Record, Inc. 28 October 1982 83 25 https://www.newspapers.com/image/255267952 12777527 I mean phones are like mondo cool, because it's like you don't know what to wear until you check it out with at because they want you to show up looking like a joanie, you know?
en Review of Books w:Art in America New York, N.Y. Art In America, Inc. February 1983 15 https://archive.org/details/artinamerica71janmath/page/n190/mode/1up 0004-3214 1514286 My Mom, who takes night classes in painting and stuff at Valley College and knows about art, except she still wears totally base designer jeans with elastic butts and comes off like a total Joanie, has these other books by Judith Krantz, like Scruples and Princess Daisy.
en Laura Ross The Valley Girl Turns 40 New York, N.Y.; Bloomington, I.N. w:iUniverse, Inc. 2008 17 https://archive.org/details/valleygirlturns400laur/page/17/mode/1up 978-0-595-52933-9 You might want to stop being such a total Joanie and move the pony to the back of your head. I wonder if all those years of wearing the side pony has done brain damage? Maybe that would explain why you still wear it.
en Jeffrey A[lan] Lockwood Murder on the Fly Fayetteville, A.R. Pen-L Publishing 2017 18 https://archive.org/details/murderonfly0000lock/page/18/mode/1up 978-1-683-13123-6 Nothing to report. No mites, no fleas, nothing," said Larry, "But some of the poor Joanies in the main room were scratching their necks like there was a company louse picnic. We baited some double-sticky tape and roach traps, but I doubt they'll catch anything."
References
en 2-syllable words given names female given names female given names from French female given names from Hebrew diminutives of female given names