carny

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word carny. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word carny, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say carny in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word carny you have here. The definition of the word carny will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofcarny, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: cárnÿ

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ)ni/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ni

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

carny (countable and uncountable, plural carnies)

  1. (informal, countable) A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).
    Synonym: showie (Australia)
    • 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 276:
      The Reverend Foster, self-ordained—or directly ordained by God, depending on authority cited—had an instinct for the pulse of his times stronger than that of a skilled carnie sizing up a mark.
    • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
      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!”
  2. (uncountable) The jargon used by carnival workers.
  3. (informal, countable) A carnival.
Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

carny (third-person singular simple present carnies, present participle carnying, simple past and past participle carnied)

  1. (dialectal) To cajole, wheedle, or coax.
  2. To lead, Edward May, 1580.

References

The Apostles did not only keepe wiues, but also carnied them about (1 Corintians 9:5).

  • Edward May (1580) The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously abridged by Edmond Bunnie Bachelor of divinity; and translated into English by Edward May, page 229

Noun

carny

  1. (dialectal) Flattery.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ.

Pronunciation

Adjective

carny

  1. black

Declension

Declension of carny
Masculine singular Feminine singular Neuter singular Dual Plural
Nominative carny carna carne carnej carne
Genitive carnego carneje carnego carneju carnych
Dative carnemu carnej carnemu carnyma carnym
Accusative carny
carnego (animate) 		carnu carne carnej
carneju (animate) 		carne
carnych (optional animate form)
Instrumental carnym carneju carnym carnyma carnymi
Locative carnem carnej carnem carnyma carnych

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “carny”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “carny”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia