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I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
Blu Cantrell

Meaning of "phoney" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PHONEY

Origin uncertain.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PHONEY

phoney  [ˈfəʊnɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHONEY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phoney can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PHONEY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

phoney

Fraud

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Definition of phoney in the English dictionary

The first definition of phoney in the dictionary is not genuine; fake. Other definition of phoney is insincere or pretentious. Phoney is also an insincere or pretentious person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHONEY


abalone
ˌæbəˈləʊnɪ
bony
ˈbəʊnɪ
canzone
kænˈzəʊnɪ
canzoni
kænˈzəʊnɪ
coney
ˈkəʊnɪ
Dione
daɪˈəʊnɪ
Gaborone
ˌhæbəˈrəʊnɪ
leone
liːˈəʊnɪ
macaroni
ˌmækəˈrəʊnɪ
Marconi
mɑːˈkəʊnɪ
mascarpone
ˌmæskəˈpəʊnɪ
Moroni
məˈrəʊnɪ
noni
ˈnəʊnɪ
ony
ˈəʊnɪ
pepperoni
ˌpɛpəˈrəʊnɪ
phony
ˈfəʊnɪ
pony
ˈpəʊnɪ
Stoney
ˈstəʊnɪ
stony
ˈstəʊnɪ
tony
ˈtəʊnɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHONEY

phonetic
phonetic alphabet
phonetic law
phonetical
phonetically
phonetician
phoneticisation
phoneticise
phoneticism
phoneticist
phoneticization
phoneticize
phonetics
phonetisation
phonetism
phonetist
phonetization
phonetize
phoney war
phoneyness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHONEY

big money
black money
blood money
bread and honey
Clooney
easy money
even money
honey
in the money
land of milk and honey
looney
manuka honey
money
on the money
paper money
prize money
Rooney
smart money
spending money
start-up money

Synonyms and antonyms of phoney in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PHONEY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «phoney» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of phoney

Translation of «phoney» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHONEY

Find out the translation of phoney to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of phoney from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «phoney» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虚假
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

farsante
570 millions of speakers

English

phoney
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जाली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المزيف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

липа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপ্রকৃত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Telefoni
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unecht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

偽物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가짜
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Telpon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏமாற்றுகாரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बनावट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sahte
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

falso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fałszywy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

липа
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fals
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψεύτικος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sogenaamde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bluff-
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bløffmaker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of phoney

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHONEY»

The term «phoney» is regularly used and occupies the 90.891 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHONEY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «phoney» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «phoney» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phoney

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4 QUOTES WITH «PHONEY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word phoney.
1
Blu Cantrell
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
2
George Harrison
Hippies are so phoney and fake.
3
Famke Janssen
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
4
J. D. Salinger
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHONEY»

Discover the use of phoney in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phoney and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cell Phoney
By knowing the rules, children can become masters of their cell phones and avoid becoming a “Cell Phoney!” Paperback, 32 pages.
Julia Cook, 2012
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War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War, November ...
During the phony war, the young Sartre made use of his spare time to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography which anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in ...
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1984
3
Grk and the Phoney Macaroni
Tim and Grk's eighth amazing adventure takes them to the home of pizza, pasta and the leaning tower of Pisa.
Joshua Doder, 2012
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The Phoney Princess
This book is not intended to be prize winning literature, but it is most certainly an 'eye-opening must read', especially for those who have read the bestseller 'Princess' books by Jean P. Sasson.
Frederike Monika Pavlik, 2012
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To Be A Phoney:
Or, rather, am I not a phoney but like the Jonathan Miller character who, when asked if he was aJew, decided that he was not really aJew, not the whole hog – JewISH. PhoneyISH, then? By that I mean pretending to knowledge or emotion I do ...
Don Hatwell, 2014
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The Phoney War on the Home Front
The story is carried entertainingly all the way to the Blitz: the darkening moment at which Britain realized there was indeed 'a war on.'
E. S. Turner, 2012
7
Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland's Phoney Neutrality During ...
Behind the Green Curtain goes beyond any previous book in examining the myth of Irish wartime neutrality.
T. Ryle Dwyer, 2010
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The Phoney Mob
The mentor reads all or some sections of the book. Step 2: Read the bookThe student then reads the book, either in a guided reading or independent reading situation.
Maureen Haselhurst, 2010
9
Everything Scrabble: Third Edition
Now you've drawn letters that don't quite work together well, but you see a phoney that looks like a plausible word. Should you try it? One of the best times to play a phoney is right after your opponent has just lost a challenge. After feeling the ...
Joe Edley, John D. Williams, Jr., John Williams, 2009
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The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940
If a link is to be made between France's political and social conditions and the defeat, it can be more convincingly done by looking not so much at the last years of the Third Republic in general as at the very specific conditions of the Phoney ...
Julian Jackson, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHONEY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term phoney is used in the context of the following news items.
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Adrian Peterson: My goal is always 2500 yards
Aluminum bench seating after a phoney stock sale. Lol. mypercyhurts2 says: Jul 26, 2015 11:55 AM. overatedselfpromoter says: Jul 26, 2015 ... «NBCSports.com, Jul 15»
2
Dion Fanning: Handy draw can't mask deep-seated problems for …
The phoney excitement of the hunt for a saviour followed by a mission statement and a slow - or quick - realisation that the mission statement is ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
3
Industrial pride, as immortalised on a packet of Indian laxative
But Sat-Isabgol isn't a phoney. The brand first went on sale in 1937, 10 years before British rule ended in India, and has commanded the loyalty ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
School denies carrying out 'phoney' search for new home
Protesters have accused a school of carrying out a "phoney" search for potential sites after discovering a hospital and a sewage works were on ... «getwestlondon, Jul 15»
5
How to save the planet: environmental conflicts in a new light
Anti-wolf groups fight against “phoney zealot biology” with facts of their own, arguing that wolf reintroduction is harmful to other wildlife and ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
6
From the archive, 25 July 1966: The Big Daddy of pop painting
... George Heard Hamilton – a confusion in nomenclature which must have pleased Duchamp, the owner of those authentically phoney aliases ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Tony Abbott, Greg Sheridan and the 1977 AUS conference: a …
His article appeared in the Saturday edition of January 29 under the headline “I Accuse: Phoney student thugs use spit and abuse to create ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
8
Telstra customers receive fake phone bills from cyber criminals in …
The other phoney email tells customers that their bill is attached and can be identified by a grammatical error in the salutation, which is ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
9
Pic: Peter Stringfellow sent this letter to NME in 1995 calling Blur …
... that we did not sell the particular commodity that they were looking for", before saying that their attitude was "entirely pretentious and phoney. «Entertainment.ie, Jul 15»
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The Apple Watch is doing OK, but Christmas is when it might really fly
That's if Apple is willing to take the risk and crank up supply. This has been the Watch phoney war so far; Christmas will be the real battleground ... «TechRadar, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Phoney [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/phoney>. May 2024 ».
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