Johnny Appleseed
nounEtymology After the American pioneer nurseryman Johnny Appleseed (1774–1845).
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Idiomatic A person, usually a male, who is generous, nurturing, and dedicated to positivity and helping others.
- Seeger, the Johnny Appleseed of folk music, who has always wanted the whole world to sing and shunned celebrity, was a lifelong radical who serenaded the civil rights movement, popularized "We Shall Overcome", and marched and sang for peace in the antiwar movement.2012, John W. Kirshon, An American Century, page 478: