stony broke

See also: stony-broke

English

Alternative forms

• stony-broke

Etymology

From stony (“like a stone”) + broke, after earlier stone broke.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

stony broke (not comparable)

1. (UK and Australia, slang) Alternative form of broke: without any money.
   • 1890, Albert Barrère et al., A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, volume II, page 120:

     He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:impoverished

Derived terms

• stony (as 'broke')

References

• “stony broke”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “broke, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1888.
• “stony, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1917.