Definitions for phoneys

phoneys pho·ney

Spelling: [foh-nee]
IPA: /ˈfoʊ ni/

Phoneys is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in phoneys (ehnopsy).

Definitions for phoneys

noun

  1. something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
  2. an insincere, pretentious, or deceitful person:

adjective

  1. phony.
  2. not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit:
  3. false or deceiving; not truthful; concocted:
  4. insincere or deceitful; affected or pretentious:

verb (used with object)

  1. to falsify; counterfeit; fabricate (often followed by up):

Origin of phoneys

1895-1900; perhaps alteration and respelling of fawney (slang) finger ring (Irish fsptáinne), if taken to mean “false” in the phrase fawney rig a confidence game in which a brass ring is sold

Examples for phoneys

This lad is here on business and has no time for our phoney hooptedo.

The fat red sun was strictly a phoney, and it didn't fool him any.

If the number is forty-five, it means that the lad is a phoney.

To talk about horology on the moon wouldn't add to Dabney's stature as a phoney scientist.

"She put up a phoney story about the kid being hers," he added.

It had had, in fact, to be an honest job of ship-building in order to put across a phoney promotion.

They'll size me for a phoney promoter excavatin' your pocketbook.

Aleck could smell a phoney before he opened the Envelope, because that is how he got His.

He checked up on that stuff you sold him, found out that it was phoney.

If her seven clients hadn't been so phoney she might have gotten away with it.

Word Value for phoneys
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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