toonn.1
/tuːn/ East India.
An East Indian tree, Cedrela Toona, which yields a timber resembling mahogany but softer and lighter, used for furniture and cabinet-work: the wood of this tree, also called Indian mahogany. Also attributive, as toon-tree, toon-wood.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Asian
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1810 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 101 The toon, or country mahogany, which comes from Bengal.
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 108 Toon-wood has already been mentioned under the head of Cedar.
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 28 The wood they use mostly in the Punjaub is toon... It is valuable from its durability, and is reddish in colour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
toonn.2
/tuːn/ regional.
= tune n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > a melody
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1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 16 Some of us wuz always good for a toon on the concertina.
1977 New Musical Express 12 Feb. 17/1 How the mighty are fallen. Shel Talony..is reduced to dealing with a non-voice churning out four mock country toons for a 99p line.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
toonn.3
/tuːn/, U.S. /tun/ colloquial (originally U.S.)
= cartoon n. 2. Also: a cartoon character.In early use (from 1930) also as ‘Terry-Toon’, the name given to the cartoons produced in the U.S. by Paul Terry and his company.
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1932 Photoplay Feb. 120/3 Aladdin's Lamp. Educational—Paul Terry-Toon. A very modern and rollicking version of the Arabian Nights story.
1940 N.Y. Times 7 July ix. 3/2 The producer..is Paul Terry and the casts of his Terrytoons are the blithe genii that reside in the inkwells and palettes of several score artists and craftsmen.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Nov. vii. 31/1 It's surprisingly easy for the reader too to accept Gary Wolf's wacky universe, where humans interact with 'toons.
1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 17 July (‘Scene on TV’ Suppl.) 20/2 The next big part of Disney's magic kingdom..will be ‘Toontown’... the town where ‘toons’ live, famous cartoon characters such as Betty Boop, Roger Rabbit, Mickey Mouse, [etc.].
1998 M. Moorcock in T. White Britpulp! (1999) 4 A saccharine tear graced Bishop Beesley's flurried cheek. Seemingly independent, like toon characters, his fingers grazed at random over his face.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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