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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

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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