单词 | carny |
释义 | carnyn. U.S. slang. = carnival n. 2b; also, a person who works at a carnival. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fun fair fair1763 funfair1908 carnival1931 carny1931 show1949 society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fun fair > worker ride man1926 carny1931 1931 Amer. Speech 6 330 Carnifolks, persons who engage in the carnival business. 1933 B. J. Chipman Hey Rube! 193/2 Carny, carnival. 1939 New Yorker 12 Aug. 22/2 Sixty thousand outdoor show people, the ‘carnies’, who travel from town to town with carnivals. 1948 F. Brown Dead Ringer i. 5 All around the midway carneys were letting down banners and running rope. 1948 F. Brown Dead Ringer i. 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. 1948 F. Brown Dead Ringer i. 11 One of the new girls with the posing show. She'd been with the carney only a week. 1955 R. Bradbury October Country (1956) 10 Life fixed him so he's good for nothing but carny shows. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) i. 4 Joy..stopped in her roaming through this carnie where she dwelled and listened. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) i. 4 He was a sallow stooped carnie with vapors fuming in his eyes. 1961 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Jan. 62/2 Ernie, the carni man, is violent, stupid, and wholly untouched by any kind of decency. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : carneycarnyadj. also refers to : carneycarnyv.n.2 < n.1931 see also |
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