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5-letter words (1 found)

CARNY,

4-letter words (9 found)

CANY,CARN,CRAN,CRAY,CYAN,NARC,NARY,RACY,YARN,

3-letter words (12 found)

ANY,ARC,ARY,CAN,CAR,CAY,CRY,NAY,RAN,RAY,RYA,YAR,

2-letter words (6 found)

AN,AR,AY,NA,NY,YA,

You can make 28 words from carny according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of carny

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Definitions and meaning of carny

carny

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ)ni/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ni

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • carney
  • carnie

Noun

carny (countable and uncountable, plural carnies)

  1. (informal, countable) A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).
    Synonym: showie (Australia)
  2. (uncountable) The jargon used by carnival workers.
  3. (informal, countable) A carnival.
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Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • carney

Verb

carny (third-person singular simple present carnies, present participle carnying, simple past and past participle carnied)

  1. (dialectal) To cajole, wheedle, or coax.
  2. To lead, Edward May, 1580.

References

The Apostles did not only keepe wiues, but also carnied them about (1 Corintians 9:5).

  • Edward May (1580) The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously abridged by Edmond Bunnie Bachelor of divinity; and translated into English by Edward May, page 229

Noun

carny

  1. (dialectal) Flattery.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

  • Caryn, Cryan, nacry

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

  • zarny (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtsarnɨ]

Adjective

carny

  1. black

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “carny”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “carny”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Source: wiktionary.org