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Johnny Reb

Definition: Johnny Reb

Johnny Reb

Noun

1. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `grayback' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Johnny Reb

Synonym: grayback (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Johnny Reb

DomainTitle

Books

  • Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars (reference)

  • Johnny Reb and Billy Yank (The Civil War Library Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Johnny Reb

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

johnny reb

33

cannon johnny reb

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Johnny Reb

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-h-j-n-n-o-r-y"

-3 letters: johnny.

-4 letters: benny, boner, boney, bonne, bonny, borne, ebony, enjoy, henry, herby, heron, honer, honey, horny, jenny, onery.

-5 letters: bone, bony, bore, born, bren, byre, ebon, herb, hern, hero, hoer, hone, horn, jeon, joey, john, neon, none, obey, orby, oyer, robe, yore.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Johnny Reb


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 6F 68 6E 6E 79      52 65 62

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01101111 01101000 01101110 01101110 01111001 00100000 01010010 01100101 01100010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#111 &#104 &#110 &#110 &#121 &#32 &#82 &#101 &#98

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 006F 0068 006E 006E 0079      0052 0065 0062

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4481748080912527168

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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