Johnny Reb
[ reb ]
/ rɛb /
noun Informal.
U.S. History.
a Confederate soldier.
a native or inhabitant of the southern U.S., especially of one of the former Confederate states; southerner.
Origin of Johnny Reb
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
Example sentences from the Web for johnny reb
As a hungry boy I used sometimes to think that pones and "Johnny-reb toast" were pretty nearly worth the War to us!
When Life Was Young |C. A. StephensThat day, too, Gram had "mug-bread," and for supper pones made into Johnny-reb toast.
When Life Was Young |C. A. Stephens
British Dictionary definitions for johnny reb
Johnny Reb
noun
US informal
(in the American Civil War) a Confederate soldier
Word Origin for Johnny Reb
C19: from
rebel (n)