Definition of Holy Joe

1. Noun. A chaplain in one of the military services.

Exact synonyms: Military Chaplain, Padre, Sky Pilot
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Generic synonyms: Chaplain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Joe

Holter
Holter monitoring
Holthouse
Holthouse's hernia
Holton
Holy Alliance
Holy Book
Holy Bread
Holy City
Holy Communion
Holy Eucharist
Holy Father
Holy Ghost
Holy Grail
Holy Innocents' Day
Holy Joe (current term)
Holy Land
Holy Mother
Holy Mother of God
Holy Roller
Holy Rollers
Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
Holy Roman Empire
Holy Sacrament
Holy Scripture
Holy See
Holy Sepulcher
Holy Sepulchre

Literary usage of Holy Joe

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

1. Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a by Bernard Shaw (1914)
"Holy Joe got talking about how he'd been a champion sprinter at college. ... But Holy Joe likes it: fairly laps it up like a kitten, poor old dear. ..."

2. The Bookman (1903)
""Holy Joe" in John Street was a pathetic example of the utter futility of piety, ... Holy Joe has a more humorous successor in the person of Mr. ..."

3. The History of the Saints by John C. Bennett (1842)
"... perjury, theil, robbery, burglary, arson, treason, and murder, are very littie things in the eyes of the Mormons, so long as the Holy Joe can, ..."

4. In Deacon's Orders, and Other Stories by Walter Besant (1895)
"I was Saint Snivel—I was Holy Joe—I was the Pions Warbler—all kinds of names. ... So I was expelled, and all the boys came out to cheer when Holy Joe left ..."

5. Recollections of Dublin Castle & of Dublin Society by Native (1902)
"What wrestlings had " Holy Joe" had to encounter in this connection ! He was certainly sorely tried by his " Willie," and most ludicrous it was to see how ..."

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