Definition of Pink of my John

1. Noun. A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pink Of My John

pink disease
pink disease fungus
pink elephant
pink elephants
pink family
pink films
pink fivecorner
pink fritillary
pink gin
pink gins
pink jersey
pink lady
pink noise
pink of my John (current term)
pink paper daisy
pink sand verbena
pink shower
pink shower tree
pink shrimp
pink shrimps
pink slip
pink slips
pink snapper
pink snappers
pink spot
pink spots

Literary usage of Pink of my John

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"pink of my John," plant, XVI. 363, 1 a. Pink-gill, mushroom, XII. 71, 1 be. PINKNEY, William, American lawyer and diplomatist, XIII. 532. ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"... Kiss me at the garden gate," " pink of my John," " Herb Trinity," and " Three faces under one hood," from the three colours combined in one flower. ..."

3. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"PiNK-OF-MY-JoHN, or Pink-o'-my- John, a provincial name for the pansy, would seem to be a corruption of ..."

4. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"... Kiss me at the garden gate," " pink of my John," " Herb Trinity," and " Three faces under one hood," from the three colours combined in one flower. ..."

5. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"... me," "Kiss me at the garden gate," "pink of my John," " Herb Trinity," and " Three faces under one hood," from the three colours combined in one flower. ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"pink of my John," plant, XVI. 363, 1 a. Pink-gill, mushroom, XII. 71, 1 be. PINKNEY, William, American lawyer and diplomatist, XIII. 532. ..."

7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"... Kiss me at the garden gate," " pink of my John," " Herb Trinity," and " Three faces under one hood," from the three colours combined in one flower. ..."

8. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"PiNK-OF-MY-JoHN, or Pink-o'-my- John, a provincial name for the pansy, would seem to be a corruption of ..."

9. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"... Kiss me at the garden gate," " pink of my John," " Herb Trinity," and " Three faces under one hood," from the three colours combined in one flower. ..."

10. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"... me," "Kiss me at the garden gate," "pink of my John," " Herb Trinity," and " Three faces under one hood," from the three colours combined in one flower. ..."

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