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单词 stoney
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stoneyn.1

/ˈstəʊni/
Forms: Also Scottish staney, stanie; stonie.
Etymology: Variant of stony adj.
dialect.
A child's coloured marble made of stone or a stone-like material.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of
nicker1675
alley1720
blood alley1821
commoney1837
Rouge Royal1837
peewee1848
stoney1856
knicker1860
bonce1862
plunker1863
dobber1875
agate1886
mig1886
glassy1887
miggle1890
shooter1892
aggie1896
knuckler1896
milkie1908
ghoen1913
miggie1916
immy1928
glarney1953
1856 Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 1 283/2 Stone marbles are called stoneys, and clay ones commoneys, though Dutch alleys are only stoneys enamelled.
1868 Little Corporal May 67/3 Chinies, Stonies, and Agates, some large and some small.
1884 ‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits from Blinkbonny ii. 33 Those played with were called ‘taas’, and consisted of ‘marbles, stanies, frenchies, moral-leggers, doggles, breakers’, [etc].
1919 W. Wingate Poems 74 Reddies and stanies for ‘moshie’ or ‘ring’.
1956 G. E. Evans Ask Fellows who cut Hay xxiv. 215 Single marbles were placed in a long line, as many marbles as there were players... The player stood at the end of the line, an agreed distance from the first marble, or stoney as it was called.
1965 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 13 Apr. 6/4 A good ‘staney’, a hard stone boolie which could be hurled against the school wall without breaking.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

Stoneyadj.n.2

Brit. /ˈstəʊni/, U.S. /ˈstoʊni/, Canadian English /ˈstoːni/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Stoneys, Stonies.
Forms: 1800s– Stoney, 1900s– Stony.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; probably modelled on a Cree lexical item. Etymons: stone n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < stone n. + -y suffix1, probably after Cree asinī- stone, as the first element of asinīpwāt Assiniboine n. (compare discussion at that entry). Compare earlier Assiniboine n. and Stone Indian (compare quot. 1743 at Assiniboine adj.).Compare also Crow mi:mi:naxpâ:ge , lit. ‘stone people’, used to denote the Stoney, but not the Assiniboine. The self-designation of this people is Stoney Nakoda , cognate with Santee Sioux Dakhóta Dakota n.
colloquial (chiefly Canadian).
A. adj.
Designating the Stoney (sense B.); of or relating to the Stoney.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [adjective]
Dogrib1766
Nootka1784
Nootkan1790
Dog-ribbed1791
beaver1801
Okanagan1814
Carrier1820
Sitka1822
Nanaimo1827
Loucheux1828
Nass1830
Tsimshian1836
Sitkan1851
Makah1855
Snohomish1856
Wakash1856
Songhees1860
Stoney1861
Nisga'a1874
Tlingit1881
Nimpkish1886
Wakashan1892
Musqueam1902
Gitksan1917
Squamish1928
'Namgis1966
Nuu-chah-nulth1978
Nuxalk1981
1861 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 1 253 Many of the Stoney Indians can read and write in their own language.
1988 Canad. Geographic Feb. 76/1 He tells of a visit with Chief John Snow of the Stoney people.
1993 Canad. Geographic May 98/3 I wanted to spend more time with Father De Smet among the Stoney Indians in 1845.
2003 J. Treat Around Sacred Fire vi. 184 The two months of summer break were their only opportunity to immerse themselves in Stoney traditions.
B. n.2
1. A member of a Siouan people inhabiting the Canadian province of Alberta. The Stoney are an offshoot of the Assiniboine, and although they are often confused with this group, the Stoney are a distinct people; their language and that spoken by the Assiniboines are mutually unintelligible.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun]
Slave1789
beaver1801
Carrier1801
Musqueam1808
Nootkian1811
Okanagan1814
Takulli1820
Dogrib1823
Nanaimo1827
Loucheux1828
Bella Coola1834
Nootkan1835
Chilkat1836
Nootka1846
Squamish1846
Siwash1847
Kwakiutl1848
Nitinaht1848
Sitkan1848
Sitka1853
Makah1855
Stick Indian1857
Songhees1860
Stoney1861
Mattole1864
Tlingit1865
Nisga'a1874
Hoochinoo1878
Nimpkish1885
Tsimshian1888
Gitksan1889
Nuxalk1910
Snohomish1910
Nuu-chah-nulth1983
Ditidaht1988
'Namgis1994
1861 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 1 251 At one time the Plain Stoneys or Assineboines were a very powerful tribe on the Saskatchewan district.
1870 D. Cameron tr. A. Taché Sketch North-west of Amer. 120 Englishmen also use the name Assiniboines, but they call this tribe of Sious Stonies.
1907 J. W. Schultz My Life as Indian xvii. 194 They found different tribes..and various mountain tribes, the Kutenais, Pend d'Oreilles, and Stonies.
1967 D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 7) xx. 309 The northern [branch of the Assiniboine], commonly known today as Stonies, settled on several small reserves in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
1976 Times 23 July 11/7 Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts, a Stoney Indian), an impassive little man.
2013 M. Enns Wild Horses, Wild Wolves iii. 60/2 The Stoneys, along with their horses, continued north to the area along the Bow River.
2. The Siouan language of the Stoney. Stoney was earlier assumed to be a Canadian or Alberta variety of the closely-related Assiniboine and sometimes called Northern Assiniboine.
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1863 J. Palliser Jrnls., Rep. & Observ. Explorations Brit. N. Amer. 117 in Parl. Papers XXXIX. 441 Mr. Brazeau..was a wonderful Indian linguist, and spoke Stoney, Sioux, Salteau, Cree, Blackfoot, and Crow.
1983 E. G. Luxton in J. E. Foster Developing West 102 I was fortunate in having a mother who spoke Cree and Stony fluently and a father who spoke Stony.
2014 B. Rice Trouble with Beauty 98 You must be Stoney. You speak Stoney? You don't even speak Stoney!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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