stony broke
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See also: stony-broke
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From stony (“like a stone”) + broke, after earlier stone broke.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
stony broke (not comparable)
- (UK and Australia, slang) Alternative form of broke: without any money.
- 1890, Albert Barrère et al., A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, volume II, page 120:
- He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- stony (as 'broke')
References
- “stony broke”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “broke, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1888. - “stony, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1917.
