different between goney vs toney

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goney (plural goneys)

Alternative form of gooney
- 1851, Melville, Herman, Moby Dick
  But some time after, I learned that goney was some seaman's name for albatross.

toney (comparative tonier, superlative toniest)

Alternative spelling of tony
- 1921, D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl, Thomas Seltzer (1921), Chapter XII:
  The really toney women of the place came to take tea in her room, and these little teas in the hospital were like a little elegant female conspiracy.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:toney.

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