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joe jō, Joey, jō′i, n.
(slang) a fourpenny-bit—from Joseph Hume, M.P., their
author, 1836.—Joe Miller, an old or stale jest, a jest-book;
Joe Millerism, the habit of retailing stale jests—from
Joe Miller (1684-1738), a comedian but notoriously dull fellow,
whose name was attached to a collection in 1739
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