carney
carney is the alternative spelling of carny.
Meaning of carny
Noun (1)
carny (countable and uncountable, plural carnies)
- A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).
- 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.1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 276
- Synonyms:
- showie
- The jargon used by carnival workers.
- A carnival.
Noun (2)
carny
- Flattery.
- Synonyms:
- blandishment, sycophancy, flattery, incense, adulation, ass-kissing, ass-licking, gloze, hoomalimali, soft sawder
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Carney
Carney (plural Carneys)
- A surname from Irish.
- White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. administration was making clear in conversations with American firms that it would be inappropriate for senior executives to make the trip to St. Petersburg.2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business
- A male given name.
- A female given name.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Carney
Carney
- A number of places in the United States.
- A number of places in Ireland.
Noun capitalized: Carney
Carney (uncountable)
- A rare disorder characterized by increased risk of tumors, dark blotches on the skin, and endocrine overactivity.
- In male patients at risk for Carney complex testicular ultrasonography for the early detection of LCCSCT and associated testicular pathology is recommended.2003, Toren Finkel, J. Silvio Gutkind, Signal Transduction and Human Disease, →ISBN, page 217
- The patient's mother has Carney syndrome, with lentigines, cardiac myxoma, fibroadenoma of the breast, and a fibroepithelial polyp of the external auditory canal.2004, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Forms of carney
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | carneys |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | carneys |
| present participle | carneying |
| past participle | carneyed |
| past | carneyed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Carneys |
Origin of carney
Clipping of carnival + -ey (“diminutive, hypocoristic suffix”).
* (carcinogenic disorder): Named after American pathologist John Aidan Carney
Words formed from carney
- Carney triad
Questions about carney
- What does carney mean?
- Carney means a surname from Irish.
- What is carney the alternative spelling of?
- Carney is the alternative spelling of carny.
- What part of speech is carney?
- Carney can be a proper noun or a noun.
Words near carney in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: carney (page history and authors); Carney (page history and authors); carny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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