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jonty

jonty is the alternative form of jaunty.

Meaning of jaunty

Noun

jaunty (plural jaunties)

  1. A master-at-arms on board a Royal Navy ship.
    • ‘When libertymen come back there’s the quartermaster, the crusher, the officer of the day, sometimes the Jaunty hisself and usually Big Bill.’1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 74
    Synonyms:
    jonty

See all 6 meanings of jaunty

Proper noun capitalized: Jonty

Jonty

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.
  2. A male given name.
  3. A female given name.

Forms of jonty

pluraljonties

Questions about jonty

What does jonty mean?
Jonty means a diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.
What is jonty the alternative form of?
Jonty is the alternative form of jaunty.
What part of speech is jonty?
Jonty is a proper noun.

Words near jonty in the dictionary

  1. Jonsered
  2. Jonson
  3. Jonsonesque
  4. Jonsonian
  5. jonties
  6. jonty
  7. Jonval
  8. Jonval turbine
  9. Jonval turbines
  10. Jonvals
  11. joo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jonty (page history and authors); Jonty (page history and authors); jaunty (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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