Stony
adj, name, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 As hard as stone.
- 2 Containing or made up of stones.
"a stony path"
- 3 Lacking warmth and emotion. figuratively
"When Victor Laszlo leads the demoralized French in the “Marseilles^([sic – meaning Marseillaise]),” and even Yvonne, the chippy who is sleeping with a Nazi officer, joins in, the stoniest intellectual collapses in tears."
- 4 Showing no warmth of emotion. figuratively
"She gave him a stony reception with a stony silence."
- 5 Ellipsis of stony broke: without any money. Australia, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
"Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money."
- 1 hard as granite wordnet
- 2 showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings wordnet
- 3 abounding in rocks or stones wordnet
- 1 The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. slang
"The "Stony" fandom takes the comic remediation ship or genderswap and removes it from its aesthetic relationship by placing it within a new remediated work."
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More examples"He had a stony face, etched by time."
Etymology
From Middle English stony, stoni, stani, from Old English stāniġ, stǣniġ (“stony, rocky”), from Proto-Germanic *stainagaz (“stony”), equivalent to stone + -y. Cognate with Scots stany (“stony”), West Frisian stienich (“stony”), Dutch stenig (“stony, metalled”), German steinig (“stony, rocky, gravelly”), Swedish stenig (“stony, rocky, pebbly”).
Blend of Steve + Tony.
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