Carny vs Carn - What's the difference?
carny | carn |
A person who works in a carnival.
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The jargon used by carnival workers.
(Australia, informal) Come on.
(Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (especially football) team.
* 1956' September 10, "'''Carn the Magpies!", ''
* 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected",
* 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC",
* 2011' October 11, "'''Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", ''
As a noun carny
is a person who works in a carnival.As an interjection carn is
come on.carny
English
(wikipedia carny)Alternative forms
* carnieNoun
(carnies)citation, page= , passage=Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”}}
Synonyms
* showie (Australia)carn
English
Interjection
(en interjection)The Argus
The Sydney Morning Herald
- Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
The Age
- Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn', they cry, ' carn … feebly at first."
Herald Sun