Definitions for phoney

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phoney pho·ney

Spelling: [foh-nee]

IPA: /ˈfoʊ ni/

Phoney is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in phoney (ehnopy).

Definitions for phoney

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 phoney

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 phoney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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