Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of
any .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Any.
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Examples
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I love technology so have no desire to live in ony other time.
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 5 Days to Go! Nalini Singh 2009
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$ony is a heartless company that forces its customers to shell out big bucks for inferior products.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic, and why Sony continues to blow. 2005
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Apparently it’s better here: not ony is there a lot more space but the climate is perfect.
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"I'm no 'content wi' thae terms ony way," persisted Davie stubbornly.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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On the contrary, the patient, like one provoked by interruption, changed her posture, and called out with an impatient tone, ` ` Nurse --- nurse, turn my face to the wa ', that I may never answer to that name ony mair, and never see mair of a wicked world.' '
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--- And as to its being an unanimous call, I wad be glad to ken fat business the carles have to call ony thing or ony body but what the Duke and mysell likes! ''
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On the contrary, the patient, like one provoked by interruption, changed her posture, and called out with an impatient tone, "Nurse -- nurse, turn my face to the wa ', that I may never answer to that name ony mair, and never see mair of a wicked world."
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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The approaches of death are called an ag - ony, that is, the combat by excellence.
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It's na a shame, "straightening herself;" it's a trouble such as ony woman might bear an 'be honest.
That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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It's na a shame, "straightening herself;" it's a trouble such as ony woman might bear an 'be honest.
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