stony broke
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See also: stony-broke
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From stony (“like a stone”) + broke, after earlier stone broke.
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Adjective[edit]
stony broke (not comparable)
- (UK and Australia, slang) Alternative form of broke: without any money.
- 1890, Albert Barrère et al., A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, volume II, page 120:
- He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence.
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Derived terms[edit]
- stony (as 'broke')
References[edit]
- “stony broke”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “broke, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1888. - “stony, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1917.
