Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Marked by an elegant or exclusive manner or quality: a tony country club.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A simpleton.
- Of a high tone; affecting social elegance; genteel; swell.
Wiktionary
- adj. Stylish, high-toned, upscale.
- n. archaic A simpleton.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A simpleton.
Etymologies
- From the name Tony. (Wiktionary)
- From tone. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Some of Thor's existing properties are located in tony shopping districts like Masaryk Street in Mexico City and Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles.”
The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Investor to Buy Burlington Arcade
“Gregg sold insurance, and they lived in tony North Scottsdale.”
“One question to all have none off you seen the animated sreies off the avengers or just not paid attention. if you have seen this then you should know that tony stark produces weapons which he also makes for shield so why is is so weird for you see cap america's shield in tony stark's lab!”
Captain America's Shield Found in Iron Man?! « FirstShowing.net
“African-American [Black] Opinion » Blog Archive » Condoleezza Rice has it right, while tony is snowed says:”
Think Progress » Rice Drops White House Claim That Iraqi Prime Minister Was Misquoted About Haditha
“African American Political Pundit » Blog Archive » Condoleezza Rice has it right, while tony is snowed says:”
Think Progress » Rice Drops White House Claim That Iraqi Prime Minister Was Misquoted About Haditha
“July 30, 2006 10: 07 PM tony is the next li/lee in martial art after Bruce and jet.”
“Owl, a better question for tony is what do the Iraqi people want?”
“On Friday morning, Premier Jean Charest called a news conference at a public library in tony Outremont to announce his party's candidate in an upcoming by-election.”
“I am not the blue-blooded prep-school kid who married two millionaires, dated a movie star and has a prenup and umpteen homes in tony locales; who has spent the past two decades as a moderately liberal senator from Massachusetts; and who likes to snowboard at Sun Valley and windsurf off Nantucket.”
“At the turn of the millennium in tony Wellesley, Massachusetts, just west of the city that liked to call itself the Hub, churchgoing was off, but Good Parent Rituals were the new sacraments.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tony’.
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Boys Names
List of Boys names
danny, daniel, bobby, robert, chris, christopher, dan, bob, rob, jeff, jeffery, jeffrey and 105 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also Fi...
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
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Scrabble People
Names and Persons (including derogatory)allowed by Scrabble
joey, ruth, guine..., joey, ruth, guinea, yid, jones, bob, jake, molly, looie, louie, erica and 13 more...
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• This is the story of the Hurriclone
Also known as Yes, we hurricane.
A collective effort to list all first names that are also hurricane/cyclone/tropical storm names.
The only rules are
1) double-check...katrina, camille, rita, klaus, beulah, isabel, betsy, carol, hazel, connie, diane, ione and 85 more...
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O So Zhinsky!
zarf, liripipe, theandric, tazza, bobeche, autotelic, gonfalon, refulgent, crepuscular, caduceus, knop, labarum and 46 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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msc's Words
pugilist, threepeat, bloviate, palaver, syncreism, pastiche, eschatology, peripatetic, glossolalia, busker, nudnik, troglodyte and 213 more...
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Fraternal Order of Ostentatious Words
Pretentious words finally have a place to congregate and enjoy a drink with one another.
pulchritude, rumbustious, tony, vaunt, vainglory, tyro, animadversion, indecorous
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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strev's list
ponzipalooza, lubricious, dingo, betaphorest, kersplat, beowolf, disambiguous, microskirt, feral, svelte, wobbly pops, thwack and 56 more...
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Short ’n’ sweet
Words of 5 letters or less (thus pithy) that are pretty cool anyway.
pithy, cavil, hilt, trope, elegy, gett, kyrie, sorry, gild, glebe, buxom, iowa and 42 more...
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kafkaesque's Words
kafkaesque, twee, internets, vainglorious, tautology, foodie, fop, prelapsarian, tobacconist, druthers, epiphenomenon, rapport and 57 more...
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SpecialK's Words
pantalones, twee, tony, pea, epitome, pied à terre, agog, bewildered, tout de suite, dirvish
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tony.
frogapplause Harrington's Tulsa practice is in a tony part of town, on a row of some of the city's most upscale medical practices. The white-and-green stucco, two-story dental clinic has the doctor's name in fancy letters on the facade.
"HIV test urged for 7,000 Oklahoma dental patients", Justin Juozapavicius, AP, March 28, 2013. link Mar 28, 2013
Telofy Tony of Plymouth! Aug 26, 2009
strev A tony neighbourhood. A tony apartment.
Some guys have all the luck. Apr 14, 2009