Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of apple, considered to be in perfection when shriveled and withered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also
Johnapple .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
applejohn .
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Examples
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She now denied that Ashbless had said anything about road apples, but might have used the word “apple-john” instead, although neither of the two terms seemed to make good sense to her.
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Why, my skin hangs about me like an old ladys loose gown; I am withered like an old apple-john.
Act III. Scene III. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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Why my skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose gown; I am withered like an old apple-john.
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To our minds, whether the small man’s face had the appearance of a road apple or an apple-john, the result is equally problematic.
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Why my skin hangs about me like an like an old lady’s loose gown; I am withered like an old apple-john.
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Mrs. Cutts and Mrs. Washington, are like two merry wives of Windsor; but as to Jemmy Madison, ” oh, poor Jemmy! ” he is but a withered little apple-john.”
Washington Irving Warner, Charles D 1881
bilby commented on the word apple-john
"... my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown; I am withered like an old apple-john."
- 'Henry IV', William Shakespeare.
February 19, 2008
seanahan commented on the word apple-john
Also the bizarro version of John who develops Wordie on an iMac.
February 20, 2008