Did you mayhaps mean honey?
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“Charley said he was a "goney," whatever that may be, and Amy advised him to turn his attention to something sensible.”
“But the lark's when a goney up with us they shut [8]”
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
“But some time after, I learned that goney was some seaman's name for albatross.”
“How the goney swallered it all, didn't he?" said Mr. Slick, with great glee.”
“That are Sheriff was a goney; don't cut your cloth arter his pattern, or your garment won't become you, I tell you.”
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
“Now, did you ever see, said Mr. Slick, such a catamaran as that; there's a proper goney for you, for to go and raise such a buildin as that are, and he as much use for it, I do suppose, as my old waggon here has for a fifth wheel.”
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
“That 'ere sheriff was a goney; don't cut your cloth arter his pattern, or your garment won't become you, I tell you.”
“There's a proper goney for you, for to go and raise such a buildin 'as that' ere, and he as much use for it, I do suppose, as my old wagon here has for a fifth wheel.”
“They relied heavily on Martin Brodeur in between the pipes and David Clarkson scored the lone goney.”
“But some time after, I learned that goney was some seaman’s name for albatross.”
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looked up
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deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
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knitandpurl "We all leaned forward to hear.
"A bird," I said. "A cloud. A goney or a cormorant."
He said it was an eye with wings."
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch, p 111 of the Doubleday hardcover edition Jan 10, 2012
madmouth and Melville would give it the same with knobs on.
though who knows--there's talk of flagrant typographical errors in the printing of Moby-Dick Jun 4, 2009
bilby WeirdNet likes gooney. Jun 4, 2009
madmouth obscure nautical term for an albatross Jun 4, 2009