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/ˈdɛmɪdʒɒn/ · noun
A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork..
“Reckon it's first-drink time,” the old prospector cried cheerily, and unearthed Monica's two-gallon demijohn.
Toby, placing his gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose, set our dinner to simmer and uncorked a demijohn of the old Verfeuille red which glowed in our glasses with the embers of old recollections of half-forgotten journeys and excursions of our youth by the light of the moon.
Use demijohn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Demijohn means A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork..
Common synonyms include carboy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“Reckon it's first-drink time,” the old prospector cried cheerily, and unearthed Monica's two-gallon demijohn.
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