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▪ I. crony, n.|ˈkrəʊnɪ|
Also 7–8 chrony, 7 cronee, 7–9 croney, cronie.
[Found first after 1660. According to Skinner 1671 ‘vox academica’, i.e. a term of university or college slang. No connexion with crone has been traced.]
An intimate friend or associate; a ‘chum’.
1665Pepys Diary 30 May, Jack Cole, my old school-fellow..who was a great chrony of mine. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1269 The Scots, your constant Cronies, Th' Espousers of your Cause, and Monies. 1710Steele Tatler No. 266 ⁋2 This is from Mrs. Furbish..an old School-Fellow and great Crony of her Ladyship's. 1818Scott Old Mort. xi, The poor lad—my old cronie's son! 1857W. Collins Dead Secret iii. ii. (1861) 78 Her father and the doctor had been old cronies. 1864Thackeray D. Duval vi. (1869) 85 My schoolfellow..became a great crony of mine.
b. attrib.
1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 188 He beat his Breast, and tore his Hair, For loss of his dear Crony Bear. 1713Swift Poems, Elegy on Partridge, Not one of all his crony stars To pay their duty at his herse! a1845Hood Ode Clapham Acad. x, Some run..some twine Their crony arms.
▪ II. crony, v.|ˈkrəʊnɪ|
[f. the n.]
intr. To associate (with) as a crony.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey i. v, I wonder whom Grey will crony with this half. 1830Lytton P. Clifford xii, Melancholy ever cronies with sublimity. 1873St. Paul's Mag. ii. 712 The Earl of Delamere and Rollo cronied so completely, to use a schoolboy's word, that Elinor saw very little of her father. |