different between joe vs sjoe

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /d?o?/
• Homophones: Jo, Joe
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From the proper name Joe.

Noun

joe (plural joes)

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

   I'm just an ordinary joe.

2. (historical) Synonym of johannes (“An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.”)

Alternative forms

• Joe

Derived terms

• half joe
• joe job

Translations

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin. See cup of joe for more.

Noun

joe (countable and uncountable, plural joes)

1. (chiefly US, informal) Coffee.
   • 2010, Melody Carlson, A Mile in My Flip-Flops (page 221)

     Some people say I make the best joe in town. But you know there's a kiosk over on Eighteenth Avenue, not that far from here.

Related terms

• cup of joe

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

Pronoun

joe f (plural jai)

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

Related terms

• jala
• joi (masculine)
• jai

Dutch

Interjection

joe

1. (colloquial) bye

   Joe! - Bye!

Old French

Noun

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

1. cheek

Descendants

• French: joue

Sranan Tongo

Pronoun

joe

1. Superseded spelling of yu.

English

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /?u?/

Interjection

sjoe

1. (South Africa) whew; phew; expressing surprise, relief, etc.
   • 2005, Alan Brand, Positively Alive (page 25)

     We open the front door after switching off the alarms and unlocking the security gates and sigh with relief, "Sjoe, it's still all here!", relieved to find that we have not become a crime statistic, another victim.

   • 2007, Heinrich Troost, Plot Loss (page 14)

     'Sjoe, it's coming down hard, eh? It's fantastic,' she shouts and discharges an exuberant giggle. They run along the side of the house onto a big covered veranda, an entertainment area from where they can see the rain sifting down in sheets […]

   • 2011, Beverley Naidoo, Aesop's Fables (page 20)

     Sjoe, it was still alive! As the young man turned to pick up his stick to beat it, the snake spat its poison into the man's water gourd before slithering away.

Anagrams

• JeOS, Joe's, Joes, Jose, joes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French chou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u/
• Hyphenation: sjoe
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

sjoe m (plural sjoes, diminutive sjoeke n)

1. (Belgium) darling (also as form of address)

Synonyms

• schat

References

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