Long John

• (tree): Long-John

Long John (plural Long Johns)

1. Alternative form of long john (pastry).
   • 1938, Minutes of the General Managers Conference, Chicago, Ill.: The W. E. Long Co., page 362:

     The complete assembly provides means for sheeting, rolling and cutting of the dough, and is suitable for a great variety of products, such as butterfly buns, coffee cakes and rings, egg biscuits, snowflake rolls, yeast raised plain and twisted doughnuts, cinnamon buns, Long Johns, and many others.

   • 1955, “Long John Donuts at 10 Dozen a Minute”, in Food Engineering, volume 27, page 113:

     OLD WAY: This worker and another turned out only 40 […] Long Johns hourly in former hand production.

   • 1987, T.E.A.M., the Early Adolescence Magazine, volume 2, page 47:

     We spent many mornings and afternoons eating Long Johns, using the quarters we saved from our bus money.

   • 2000, Gourmet, volume 60, page 24, column 3:

     We bought a couple of Long Johns and drove to Horseneck Beach State Reservation, where we sat on the dunes overlooking the ocean and enjoyed the sinfully delicious sweets.

   • 2006, Cape Cod 2006, Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 12:

     Specialties include cream puffs, Long Johns, and a variety of old-time favorites all hand made with real cream.

   • 2017, Gina Bellisario, “Smarty Paws”, in Alison Deering, editor, Super Fluffy to the Rescue (Ellie Ultra), North Mankato, Minn.: Stone Arch Books, →ISBN, pages 38–39:

     Outside Hole-in-One Donut Shop, a lady was waving wildly. […] Faster than you could eat a Long John, Ellie sprang into action.

2. Triplaris surinamensis, an ant tree.
   • 1919, The Journal of the Board of Agriculture of British Guiana, page 218:

     About the centre are large trees such as “Long John” and Wild Cacao which stand well above the other growth, forming ideal resting places for the “chicken hawks” as they wait to swoop down on young gauldings.

   • 1927, The Gardeners' Chronicle, page 70, column 3:

     Where clearances have been made in the original forest and secondary growth has taken possession, Pampwood (Cecropia peltata) and Long John (Triplaris surinamensis) are common.

   • 1988, Roy Heath, The Shadow Bride, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 162:

     On Fridays Muslim men dressed in white passed by on their way to the mosque in Church Street, while on Sundays Christian women and their children ambled along on their way to the numerous churches in Kitty, clutching their Protestant hymnals and their hats, in danger of being carried off by the wind which did not abate until it lost its way among the saman and Long John trees bordering the Botanical Gardens.

3. A type of long coffee table.
   • 1964, Daisy Thomson, To Love and Honor, New York, N.Y.: Pyramid Books, published 1974, →ISBN, pages 55–56:

     Aunt Matilda set the coffee tray down on the Long John table.

   • 1969, David Joel, Furniture Design Set Free: The British Furniture Revolution from 1851 to the Present Day, J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, →ISBN, page xiii:

     109 A pleasant ‘Long John’ coffee table.

   • 1992, “Modern Occasional Tables”, in Kimberly Kerrigone, editor, Planning a Perfect Living Room, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Creative Homeowner Press, →ISBN, section “Long John”, page 59, column 1:

     The long, low, rectangular-shaped table known as the Long John, is still the most popular type of coffee table.