joes

noun, plural joes. Scot.

1. beloved one; darling; sweetheart.

noun Scot.

1. jo.

noun Slang.

1. coffee.

noun

1. (sometimes lowercase) Informal. fellow; guy: the average Joe who works for a living.
2. Informal. a personification of a typical, often unprepossessing representative of an occupation, personality trait, state of being, etc., that is expressed, sometimes metonymically, as a mock surname: Joe Lunchbucket working hard at some factory and paying his taxes year after year; political con artists relying on the gullibility of Joe Schmo.
3. a male given name, form of Joseph.

pl n

1. the joes Australian informal a fit of depression

noun plural joes

1. a Scot word for sweetheart

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1. Jordan

noun (sometimes not capital) slang

1. US and Canadian a man or fellow
2. US a GI; soldier

Scottish form of joy, attested from 1520s as a term of endearment.

n.

“coffee,” by 1941, perhaps late 1930s, of unknown origin. Meaning “generic fellow, man” is from 1846, from the pet-form of Joseph (q.v.). Joe college “typical college man” is from 1932. Joe Blow “average fellow” is U.S. military slang, first recorded 1941.