英和和英

発音

• IPA: /-fəni/

接尾辞

-phony

1. Forms nouns related to:
   1. sound or its production
   2. musical structure
   3. language sounds and languages
   4. medical auscultation
   5. voice (Alternative form of -phonia)

派生語

• -phonic

参照

アナグラム

• hypno-

語源

Of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of fawny (“gilt brass ring used by swindlers”) (1781), from Irish fáinne (“ring”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈfoʊni/
• 韻: -əʊni

形容詞

phony (comparative phonier, superlative phoniest)

1. (informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.

   A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.

   • 1970, Imre Lakatos, “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes”, in Imre Lakatos, Alan Musgrave, editors, Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science; 4), Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176:

     […] one wonders whether the function of statistical techniques in the social sciences is not primarily to provide a machinery for producing phoney corroborations and thereby a semblance of ‘scientific progress’ where, in fact, there is nothing but an increase in pseudo-intellectual garbage.

同意語

• (fraudulent): bogus, counterfeit, fake
• See also Thesaurus:fake

反意語

• authentic
• genuine

派生語

名詞

phony (plural phonies)

1. (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.

   He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.

   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 164:

     What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were.

2. (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.

   Synonyms: faker, dissembler, pretender, fake; see also Thesaurus:deceiver

   He's such a phony, he doesn't believe half of what he says.

3. (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
   • 2013, John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, Crime Classification Manual, page 131:

     One name was a phony, but the other was the true name. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names.

派生語

• phony up, phoney up
• Phony War, Phoney War

動詞

phony (third-person singular simple present phonies, present participle phonying, simple past and past participle phonied)

1. (informal) To fake.

アナグラム

• hypno-