tony
adjectifnomcourant dans les dialogues
- //ˈtəʊni//
Stylish, high-toned, upscale.
adjectif
- 1
familierStylish, high-toned, upscale.
“He’d scorn it. You heard what he said to-night,” answered Ben. “Never mind that. He’s got tony notions, but he isn’t a pamby, for all his talk.[…]”
"No ladies or any of your tony friends?"
He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues.
Meanwhile, on another plane entirely, “Another Period” (Comedy Central, recently renewed for Season 2) is a send-up of crunchy-gravel dramas, set in tony Rhode Island in 1902.
Étymologie
From tone + -y.
nom
- 1
archaïqueA simpleton.
it would have serv'd for a Caution to People how they trifle and play the Tonies betwixt Jeft and Earnest
A pattern and companion fit / For all the keeping tonies of the pit.
Étymologie
From the name Tony.
Formes
- pluriel
- tonies
- comparatif
- tonier
- superlatif
- toniest