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Noun
Rum-Johnny (plural Rum-Johnnies)
- (India, historical) A native who loitered about the wharves of Calcutta seeking employment as a servant with newly arrived Europeans.
1810, Thomas Williamson, The East India Vade-mecum, page 168:At length, one of my own domestics informed me, that he was a Rum-Johnny who had been discharged from my service, in which he held the office of mosaulchy, (or linkboy,) for theft.
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