Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A suffix in some nouns of Latin origin, as in acrimony, ceremony, parsimony, sanctimony, alimony, matrimony, testimony, etc. See etymology. The suffix is not used as an English formative.
- An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of
many . - noun An obsolete form of
money .
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Examples
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Included, for which we dont doubt having his Majestys bounty mony, which is £5 Ster. per head.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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There is also a kind of mony called Cruzados stamped with the atmes of Portugall, and is worth 6 tangas good mony, the larines are euery 9 of them worth 2 cruzados, which is 12 tangas good mony, and these larines be of those which are stamped in Balsara and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Landlady wants mony; besides there are severall other things that he wants, both of Linnen and Woollen; all which things yield an extraordinary Pleasure, especially, if the mony which is sent, without suffring shipwrack, be imploied and laid out for those necessaries.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Eh, sirce me; an 'me was so happy no' mony 'oors syne!
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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"Ay, an 'mony's the time ye've helped at their resurrection," added
The Lighthouse 1859
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An 'mony's the puir body, baith gentle and simple, that I've gien food an' shelter to whae was very likely to hae perished o 'cauld an' hunger, but for the hidy-hole.
Hunted and Harried 1859
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"Ay, an 'mony's the time ye've helped at their resurrection," added
The Lighthouse 1859
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What is ptc site, its are real are they paid mony which is show?
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"I was aye o 'the min' it was," she said, "an 'mony's the time I thoucht I wud luik for't to please mysel'!
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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Of course no; the Arabs, instead, invest big mony in buying villas, castles, sport clubs ans stadiums and so on.
Global Voices in English » Arab World: What are Arabs waiting for? 2009
skipvia commented on the word mony
Mony Mony by Tommy James and the Shondells. The name Mony was taken from a Mutual of New York billboard.
February 8, 2008