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• carney
• carnie

語源 1

Clipping of carnival + -y (“diminutive, hypocoristic suffix”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)ni/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)ni

名詞

carny (countable and uncountable, plural carnies)

1. (informal, countable) A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).

   Synonym: showie (Australia)

   • 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 276:

     The Reverend Foster, self-ordained—or directly ordained by God, depending on authority cited—had an instinct for the pulse of his times stronger than that of a skilled carnie sizing up a mark.

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”

2. (uncountable) The jargon used by carnival workers.
3. (informal, countable) A carnival.

語源 2

Of unknown origin.

別の表記

• carney

動詞

carny (third-person singular simple present carnies, present participle carnying, simple past and past participle carnied)

1. (dialectal) To cajole, wheedle, or coax.

   Synonyms: butter up, inveigle, sweet-talk; see also Thesaurus:coax

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

     The crossing at St. Martin’s Church was mine fust of all; and when the other lads come to it I didn’t take no heed of ’em—only for that I’d have been a bright boy by now, but they carnied me over like; for when I tried to turn ’em off they’d say, in a carnying way, ‘Oh, let us stay on,’ so I never took no heed of ’em.

名詞

carny

1. (dialectal) Flattery.

   Synonyms: blandishment, sycophancy; see also Thesaurus:flattery

参照

• “carny”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

アナグラム

• nacry, Cryan, Caryn, Cyran