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▪ I. carny, n. U.S. slang.|ˈkɑːnɪ|
Also carney, carni(e).
[f. carnival 2 b + -y6.]
= carnival 2 b; also, a person who works at a carnival. Also attrib. or as adj.
1931Amer. Speech VI. 330 Carnifolks, persons who engage in the carnival business. 1933B. J. Chipman Hey Rube 193/2 Carny, carnival. 1939New Yorker 12 Aug. 22/2 Sixty thousand outdoor show people, the ‘carnies’, who travel from town to town with carnivals. 1948F. Brown Dead Ringer i. 5 All around the midway carneys were letting down banners and running rope. Ibid. 10 A town kid might possibly be around the sideshow top this late at night, but not without his clothes on. For a carney kid that wasn't too strange. Ibid. 11 One of the new girls with the posing show. She'd been with the carney only a week. 1955R. Bradbury October Country (1956) 10 Life fixed him so he's good for nothing but carny shows. 1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) i. 4 Joy..stopped in her roaming through this carnie where she dwelled and listened. Ibid., He was a sallow stooped carnie with vapors fuming in his eyes. 1961Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Jan. 62/2 Ernie, the carni man, is violent, stupid, and wholly untouched by any kind of decency.
▪ II. carny, v.
see carney. |