subs. (Cambridge University).—A student of St. John’s College: also JOHNIAN PIG or HOG—see HOG, subs. sense 3. Also as adj.: e.g., JOHNIAN blazer, JOHNIAN melody, etc.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. HOG … JONIAN HOGS an appellation given to the members of St. John’s College Cambridge.
1829. PRAED, Poems, ‘The Vicar.’
| Sit in the Vicar’s seat: you’ll hear | |
| The doctrine of a gentle JOHNIAN. |
1841. Westminster Review, xxxv. 236. The JOHNIANS are always known as pigs. They put up a new organ the other day which was immediately christened ‘Baconi Novum Organum.’
