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Joe
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Joe
Joe
English
Proper noun
Joe
- A common nickname for Joseph, also used as a formal male given name.
- 1981 Orson Scott Card, Second Movement, Nebula Winners: Science Fiction Writers of America, Harper&Row, 1981, ISBN 0060148306, 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'."
- 1981 Orson Scott Card, Second Movement, Nebula Winners: Science Fiction Writers of America, Harper&Row, 1981, ISBN 0060148306, page 207
- A female given name, a form of Joanne or Josephine.
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pet form of Joseph
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Joe (plural Joes)
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joe
joe
English
Noun
joe (plural joes)
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Etymology 2
Of uncertain origin. See cup of joe for more.
Noun
joe (uncountable)
- (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.
- 2010, Melody Carlson, A Mile in My Flip-Flops (page 221)
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joe f (plural jai)
- (third-person feminine singular pronoun, oblique case) her