Definition of Phoneys

1. Noun. (plural of phoney) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phoneys

1. phoney [v] - See also: phoney

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoneys

phonetist
phonetists
phonetization
phonetizations
phonetize
phonetized
phonetizes
phonetizing
phoneward
phonewise
phoneword
phonewords
phoney
phoneyed
phoneying
phoneys (current term)
phoniatric
phoniatrics
phonic
phonic spasm
phonically
phonicator
phonicators
phonics
phonied
phonier
phonies
phoniest
phonily
phoniness

Literary usage of Phoneys

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The treasury of knowledge and library of reference by Samuel Maunder, Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (1859)
"... the Mediterranean, where were the great and famous cities, Tyre, Sidon, Bery- ttis, &c. phoneys, the son of Pontus and Terra, and father of the Garçons. ..."

2. Herodotus by Herodotus (1831)
"... where dwell the swan-like forms Of phoneys' daughters, bent and white with ag« • One common eye have these, one common tooth, And never does the sun ..."

3. Sour Sonnets of a Sorehead: & Other Songs of the Street by James Percival Haverson (1908)
"You bet, I'd keep them talkin' all the way. I'd be just full of " temperamental moods," An' I'd create sensations every day. I'd send the phoneys hikin' to ..."

4. Ade's Fables by George Ade (1914)
"They had been stung with so many Oriental phoneys and stuck *up so often that they had gone Yellow and lost their Nerve. When they saw an outstretched Palm, ..."

5. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"... plants are being opened by force and violence, troops act as strikebreakers, steel barons defy the government, known labor phoneys defy their unions. ..."

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