carny
See also: cárnÿ
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Noun edit
carny (countable and uncountable, plural carnies)
- (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[1]:
- 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!”
- (uncountable) The jargon used by carnival workers.
- (informal, countable) A carnival.
Translations edit
a person who works in a carnival
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Etymology 2 edit
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Verb edit
carny (third-person singular simple present carnies, present participle carnying, simple past and past participle carnied)
References edit
The Apostles did not only keepe wiues, but also carnied them about (1 Corintians 9:5).
- Edward May (1580) The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously abridged by Edmond Bunnie Bachelor of divinity; and translated into English by Edward May, page 229
Noun edit
carny
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams edit
Lower Sorbian edit
Alternative forms edit
- zarny (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
carny
Declension edit
Declension of carny
Masculine singular | Feminine singular | Neuter singular | Dual | Plural | |
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Nominative | carny | carna | carne | carnej | carne |
Genitive | carnego | carneje | carnego | carneju | carnych |
Dative | carnemu | carnej | carnemu | carnyma | carnym |
Accusative | carny carnego (animate) |
carnu | carne | carnej carneju (animate) |
carne carnych (optional animate form) |
Instrumental | carnym | carneju | carnym | carnyma | carnymi |
Locative | carnem | carnej | carnem | carnyma | carnych |
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Further reading edit
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “carny”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “carny”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag