barney
/ˈbɑɹni/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.54 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She's not joking [bitch] when she says she wants to be the Barney of drag!"
- "Everyone knew, nobody cared. At least the kids didn’t. The stick up the arse parents probably would have, but Pee-Wee was pretty much the Barney of the Gen-X era. As per usual, they weren’t paying attention anyway."
- "Grimace, the Barney of Gen X."
- ""Just keep it i' thy mind," entreated the other, as a sort of parting remembrance, "ut I won thee i' fair powell—one toss an' no barney.[…]""
- "Blackguardly barneys called boxing competitions."
- "Who would believe that Mr. Gladstone shammed being ill, and that Sir Andrew Clark issued false bulletins, and that the whole thing was a barney from beginning to end."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: beren
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɑɹni/
- British English: /ˈbɑːni/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Australian usage
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.
Inflected Forms
Barneys (plural)
more barney (comparative)
most barney (superlative)
barneys (present, singular)
barneying (participle, present)
barneyed (participle, past)
barneyed (past)