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Trombone vs Tromboney - What's the difference?

trombone | tromboney |

As a noun trombone

is trombone.

As an adjective tromboney is

having a sound like that of a trombone.

trombone

English

(wikipedia trombone)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B?? (contra B?).
    • Jim plays the trombone very well.
    This trombone is very expensive.
  • The common European bittern.

    • Derived terms

    * alto trombone * tenor trombone * bass trombone * slide trombone * valve trombone * tromboning * trombonist ----

    tromboney

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a sound like that of a trombone.
  • * 2011 , Gail Sheehy, Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos Into Confidence , page 59
    • His big voice, his good humor, were back. Out rolled one of his long deep tromboney laughs.