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doney

doney is the alternative form of dhoni.

Meaning of dhoni

Noun

dhoni (plural dhonis)

  1. A handcrafted sailboat with a motor or lateen sails, resembling a dhow, that is used in the Maldives.
    • The witchery of the dawn turned the grey river-reaches to purple, gold, and opal; and it was as though the lumbering dhoni crept across the splendors of a new heaven.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 141

Noun

doney (plural doneys)

  1. (colloquial) girl, sweetheart, darling, young woman, woman
    • May 7, 1927, Uncle Dave Macon, "Tell Her To Come Back Home", Vocalion 5153
    • a no-good doney, shouldn't allow her on the street1951, Elmore James, Dust My Broom
    Synonyms:
    doney gal

Proper noun capitalized: Doney

Doney (plural Doneys)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of doney

  • doney gal

Forms of doney

Noun
pluraldoneys
Proper noun
pluralDoneys

Origin of doney

Perhaps from Catalan dona or Spanish doña; perhaps introduced to England by sailors who had visited Spanish or Italian portshttp://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=54922&messages=35

Questions about doney

What does doney mean?
Doney means girl, sweetheart, darling, young woman, woman.
What is doney the alternative form of?
Doney is the alternative form of dhoni.
What part of speech is doney?
Doney can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of doney?
The plural of doney is doneys.

Words near doney in the dictionary

  1. Donets Basin
  2. Donets River
  3. Donets'k
  4. Donetsk
  5. Donetsk People's Republic
  6. doney
  7. doneys
  8. donezepil
  9. donezo
  10. dong
  11. dong quai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doney (page history and authors); Doney (page history and authors); dhoni (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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