stony
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Definition of stony
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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As hard as stone.
“a stony polymer”
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adj
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As hard as stone.
“a stony polymer”
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Containing or made up of stones.
“a stony path”
“The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.”
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(figuratively)Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
“a stony grandmother”
“When Victor Laszlo leads the demoralized French in the “Marseilles^([sic – meaning Marseillaise]),” and even Yvonne, the chippy who is sleeping with a Nazi officer, joins in, the stoniest intellectual collapses in tears.”
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(figuratively)Of an action or expression, such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion; (usually also) emotionally cold, silent, and motionless or nearly so.
“a stony reception”
“a stony look”
“a stony silence”
“o’er the heaps of dead, / Whose stony eyes glared in the morning light, / I trod; […]”
“The Oscar-thrilled audience reacted to Mailer's attempt at humor in stony silence.”
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(Australia, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang)Ellipsis of stony broke: without any money.
“Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money.”
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(slang)The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“The "Stony" fandom takes the comic remediation ship or genderswap and removes it from its aesthetic relationship by placing it within a new remediated work.”
“It tugged at my heartstrings with Steve's memories, as well as giving me so many Stony feels.”
“The largest ships in the MCU are “Stucky” (Steve Rogers AKA Captain America and Bucky Barnes AKA the Winter Soldier) and “Stony” (Steve Rogers and Tony Stark AKA Iron Man).”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English stony, stoni, stani, from Old English stāniġ, stǣniġ (“stony, rocky”), from Proto-Germanic *stainagaz (“stony”), equivalent to stone + -y. Cognate with Scots stany (“stony”), West Frisian stienich (“stony”), Dutch stenig (“stony, metalled”), German steinig (“stony, rocky, gravelly”), Swedish stenig (“stony, rocky, pebbly”).
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