Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phoney up

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English

Syllables: phoney up
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of phony up.

Example Sentences

"If you take time to edit a person's answers or phoney up the story in any way, the public viewers, millions of them throughout the country, are getting a distorted view of what is actually happening."
"And it worked. He realized it was just like reading a lock and phoneying up an electronic ID for it."
"Maybe we can use her we find a way to maintain that Silver's people phoneyed up the evidence we found."

Inflected Forms

phoneys up (present, singular) phoneying up (participle, present) phoneyed up (participle, past) phoneyed up (past)

Questions

What does phoney up mean?: Alternative form of phony up.

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