/ˈstəʊni/, /ˈstoʊni/
OriginFrom Middle English stony, stoni, stani, from Old English stāniġ, stǣniġ (“stony, rocky”), from Proto-Germanic *stainagaz (“stony”), equivalent to stone + -y. Cognate with Scots stany (“stony”), West Frisian stienich (“stony”), Dutch stenig (“stony, metalled”), German steinig (“stony, rocky, gravelly”), Swedish stenig (“stony, rocky, pebbly”).
- As hard as stone.
- Containing or made up of stones.
“a stony path”
“The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.”
- figurativelyLacking warmth and emotion.
“When Victor Laszlo leads the demoralized French in the “Marseilles^([sic – meaning Marseillaise]),” and even Yvonne, the chippy who is sleeping with a Nazi officer, joins in, the stoniest intellectual”
- figurativelyShowing no warmth of emotion.
“She gave him a stony reception with a stony silence.”
“o’er the heaps of dead, / Whose stony eyes glared in the morning light, / I trod; […]”
“The Oscar-thrilled audience reacted to Mailer's attempt at humor in stony silence.”
- Australia, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsisEllipsis of stony broke: without any money.
“Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money.”
- slangThe ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“The "Stony" fandom takes the comic remediation ship or genderswap and removes it from its aesthetic relationship by placing it within a new remediated work.”
“It tugged at my heartstrings with Steve's memories, as well as giving me so many Stony feels.”
“The largest ships in the MCU are “Stucky” (Steve Rogers AKA Captain America and Bucky Barnes AKA the Winter Soldier) and “Stony” (Steve Rogers and Tony Stark AKA Iron Man).”
Formsstonier(comparative) · stoniest(superlative) · stoney(alternative)