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cartoonies

cartoonies is the plural of cartooney.

Meaning of cartooney

Noun

cartooney (plural cartoonies or cartooneys)

  1. (Internet) An empty and comically overstated threat of legal action, or a mock legal action.
    • Because we who don’t like spam need a good laugh once in a while (other than the occasional guffaws induced by cartooneys), let me share a few samples from my incoming spam cesspool.2004, Danny Goodman, “Rule #3: Spammers Are Stupid”, in Spam Wars: Our Last Best Chance to Defeat Spammers, Scammers, and Hackers, SelectBooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 183

Questions about cartoonies

What is cartoonies the plural of?
Cartoonies is the plural of cartooney.

Words near cartoonies in the dictionary

  1. cartooners
  2. cartoonery
  3. cartoonesque
  4. cartooney
  5. cartooneys
  6. cartoonies
  7. cartoonification
  8. cartoonified
  9. cartoonifies
  10. cartoonify
  11. cartoonifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cartoonies (page history and authors); cartooney (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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