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Goney vs Toney - What's the difference?

goney | toney |

As a noun goney

is .

As an adjective toney is

.

goney

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1851 , Melville, Herman, Moby Dick
    • But some time after, I learned that goney was some seaman's name for albatross.

    toney

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • * 1918 , William Magney, The Hunt Ball Mystery , Chapter II:
    • The ball will be rather a toney affair."
  • * 1921 , D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl , Thomas Seltzer (1921), Chapter XII:
    • The really toney women of the place came to take tea in her room, and these little teas in the hospital were like a little elegant female conspiracy.
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