name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
Mary Jane
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noun
Meaning 2
Marijuana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, djamba, doja, doobage, dope, endo, gage, ganja, ganj, grass, green, greenery, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, Mary Jane, MJ, marihoochie, marijuana, Mary Joanna, method, mezz, muggle, mull, pot, puff, reefer, sens, sensimillia, sensimilla, shit, sweetleaf, tea, Texas tea, trees, twig, wacky tobaccy, weed, yarndie, zaza, zombie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A type of shoe, usually for a girl, having a rounded toe and a strap with a buckle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
street names for marijuana
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, ganja
History
Etymology
Calque of Spanish María Juana.
Genericized trademark, named after a character in the Buster Brown comic strip with this name, licensed by the shoe manufacturer.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: Marie-Jeanne — double given name
- Galician: María Xoana — double given name
- Portuguese: Maria Joana — double given name
- Spanish: María Juana — double given name
- Finnish: mari — slang for marijuana
- French: Marie-Jeanne — slang for marijuana
- Galician: María Xoana — slang for marijuana
- German: Marihuana — slang for marijuana
- German: Gras — slang for marijuana
- German: Mary Jane — slang for marijuana
- Hungarian: Mariska — slang for marijuana
- Italian: Maria Giovanna — slang for marijuana
- Portuguese: Maria Joana — slang for marijuana
- Portuguese: Mary Jane — slang for marijuana
- Romanian: Maria Ioana — slang for marijuana
- Chinese Mandarin: 瑪麗珍鞋 /玛丽珍鞋 (Mǎlì-Zhēn xié) — type of shoe
- Finnish: maryjane — type of shoe
- French: baby — type of shoe
- German: Spangenschuh — type of shoe
- Japanese: メリージェーン (Merījēn) — type of shoe
- Korean: 메리 제인 (meri jein) — type of shoe
- Spanish: mercedita — type of shoe
- Volapük: snabädajuk — type of shoe
- Volapük: cilasnabädajuk — type of shoe