Jonesses

English

Proper noun

Jonesses

1. plural of Jones
   • 1877, Mary Kyle Dallas, The Grinder Papers: Being the Adventures of Miss Charity Grinder, New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., page 283:

     ‘Everybody else in the house knowed Mr. Jones,” she said, “and Peter was paid fifty dollars tu stay away, and had a place now with the Jonesses.”

   • 1927, Senatorial Campaign Expenditures: Hearings Before a Special Committee Investigating Expenditures in Senatorial Primary and General Elections, United States Senate, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session Pursuant to S. Res. 195, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, page 3009:

     Mr. Davenport, of the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, said to me a few days ago that he was strong for me although he was a Republican, that he would back me, and took me down to the billiard room, and they had a low bench, one of those things which cost so much, they are not as high as that, and as we were standing up in his billiard room he said, “Mr. Bullitt, I am for you because I am tired of so many Jonesses in the Senate and House so far; it is time we want somebody not smeared all over with Jones; and you just typify what I am for; and I am against Jones, because he typifies this idea of ‘Don’t do this’ or ‘Don’t do that.’”

   • 1997, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, →ISBN, page 213, column 1:

     Her own New York and Philadelphia relatives—the Schermerhorns, the Newbolds, the Pendletons, the Ledyards, Gallatins, Rhinelanders, and the Jonesses—eventually became close associates with the families of European aristocratic origin who had settled in New York—the Duers, the Livingstons, the Rutherfurds, the de Grasses, and the Van Rensselaers.

   • 2003, Nsukka Journal of the Humanities, number 13, page 16:

     Continuously chasing the latest headlines in the Western press or research agenda, as the best educated of her children currently do, can only keep her forever panting and breathless in the futile bid to catch up with the Western Jonesses.