Joe

See also: joe and Joe.

English

Etymology

Short form (diminutive form) of various names beginning with Jo..., particularly the male names Joseph and, less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias. The spelling Jo is used more often for diminutives of similar female names.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jō
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəʊ/

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  • (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒoʊ/
• Homophones: Jo, joe, Zhou
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Proper noun

Joe

1. A diminutive of the male given names Joseph, Josiah, Joel, or Josias.
   • 1981 Orson Scott Card, Second Movement, Nebula Winners: Science Fiction Writers of America, Harper&Row, 1981, →ISBN, page 207

     "With a name like Joe," Joe always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying 'Joe's Bar and Grill'."

2. (rare) Alternative form of Jo: a diminutive of various female given names.

Derived terms

• Bobby Joe
• Genocide Joe
• half joe
• Holy Joe
• Jo
• Jody
• joe
• Joebama
• Joe Blakes
• Joe Doakes
• Joe Frogger
• Joe Grant Cay
• joe job
• Joe Miller
• Joe Random
• Joe Who
• Joey
• Port St. Joe
• Sleepy Joe
• Uncle Joe

 

Translations

pet form of Joseph

• Arabic: جُو m (jū)
• Armenian: Ջո (J̌o)
• Belarusian: Джо m (Džo)
• Bengali: জো (bn) (jō)
• Bulgarian: Джо m (Džo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 祖 (zou²)

  Mandarin: 喬／乔 (zh) (Qiáo)

• Czech: Pepík (cs)
• Georgian: ჯო (ǯo)
• Greek: Τζο (el) m (Tzo)
• Hebrew: יוסי (he) m (yósi), ג׳ו m (jo)
• Hindi: जो (hi) m (jo)
• Hungarian: Jóska (hu)
• Italian: Pino m, Peppe m, Beppe m, Peppino m
• Japanese: ジョー (Jō)
• Korean: 조 (ko) (Jo)
• Kyrgyz: Жо (Jo)
• Latvian: Džo m
• Macedonian: Џо m (Džo)
• Persian: جو (fa) (jo)
• Polish: Józio (pl) m
• Portuguese: Zé (pt) m or f
• Russian: Джо (ru) m (Džo) (of the English Joseph), Ёся m (Jósja), Ио́ся m (Iósja), О́ся (ru) m (Ósja)
• Scottish Gaelic: Eòs
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Џо m

• Slovak: Jožo
• Spanish: Che m, Pepe (es) m, Pepito m
• Tajik: Ҷо (Jo)
• Ukrainian: Джо m (Džo)
• Vietnamese: Giâu

Noun

Joe (plural Joes)

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

   I'm just an ordinary Joe.

2. (archaic, slang) Synonym of Joe Miller (“an old joke”)
   • 1848, James Robinson Planché, The Golden Branch, page 22:

     O what "a Joe," — what an "old Joe!" — / A very "old Joe!" — / Old Joe Miller made the joke before, / But nothing tells better that ^[sic] a good old Joe!

Alternative forms

• joe

Derived terms

• average Joe
• Conky Joe
• Eat at Joe's
• G.I. Joe
• Hobo Joe
• Joe Average
• Joe Blake
• Joe Bloggs
• Joe Blow
• Joe Citizen
• Joe College
• joe job
• Joe Lunchbucket
• Joe Nobody
• Joe Public
• Joe Q. Public
• Joe's
• Joe Schmoe
• Joe's Diner
• Joe Sixpack
• Joe Soap
• Joe the Goose
• mumbly Joe
• regular Joe

 

Translations

stereotypical male given name

• Arabic: مُحَمَّد (ar) (muḥammad)
• Finnish: Tauno (fi)
• Japanese: 太郎 (ja) (Tarō)
• Portuguese: Zé (pt) m
• Russian: Ива́н (ru) m (Iván), Ва́ня (ru) m (Vánja), Ва́нька (ru) m (Vánʹka)
• Spanish: Juan (es) m
• Tagalog: Juan (tl)

See also

• bare-bellied Joe
• cup of joe
• joe
• joe-pye weed
• sloppy joe

 

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Joe.

Proper noun

Joe

1. a male given name from English

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Joe.