zony
See also: żony
English
Etymology
Blend of zebra + pony
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈzəʊni/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈzoʊni/
- Rhymes: -əʊni
Noun
zony (plural zonies)
- The offspring of a male zebra and a female pony.[1]
- 1997 April 6, "vicki blakslee" (username), "Zonis zorses and zebras", in rec.equestrian, Usenet:
- > Please tell us how you are doing. What do you have, zony or zorse?
- 2001 June 27, "Bill Ramsay" (username), "Evolution", in nz.soc.religion, Usenet:
- the old man with the beard decided to lay his hands upon this poor lonely pony, and descended upon her a bounty, a bounty so exceedingly large, that she was blessed with a zony or a pebra, and this doth maketh lots of dosh for the zony’s owner, so that he too can be bountious [sic] with the hay from the tv rights, and dost ensure the continuing success of the little darling who shall dwell in the house of hay for evermore.
- 2010, Marie Lestelle Evrard, You Look Sort of Strange, page v:
- I am a zony. My father is a zebra and my mother is a pony.
- 1997 April 6, "vicki blakslee" (username), "Zonis zorses and zebras", in rec.equestrian, Usenet:
References
- “Crisis-hit farm welcomes its gift zorse”, in (please provide the title of the work), Guardian Unlimited, June 27, 2001: “it could be a zorse perhaps, a zony or maybe a shebra or a zetland. Whatever its name, the arrival of the strange beast has been hailed as a godsend”
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɔ.nɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɔnɨ
- Syllabification: zo‧ny
Noun
zony f
- inflection of zona:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural