toney

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English

Adjective

toney (comparative tonier, superlative toniest)

  1. Alternative spelling of tony
    • 1918, William Magney, chapter II, in The Hunt Ball Mystery:
      […] The ball will be rather a toney affair."
    • 1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XII, in The Lost Girl, London: Martin Secker , →OCLC, page 299:
      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.
    • 1960 November 9, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 196:
      [Miz Beetle, about moving the White House:] Over to maybe the Riviera or one of them plush spots... It'll give the presidential residence a toney setting.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:toney.
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