Lady Melbourne , a charming but treacherous woman with whom Byron initiated a flirtatious relationship while seeking but seldom heeding advice on how best to handle her reckless daughter-in-law, did the rest.
Fryer, Venus Unmasked Sporting Magazine vol. Abbott, History of Napoleon vol. Bailey et al. Modern Honour ii. Roditi, Tales Turkey Reduplication for emphasis? Or it might be sense 6. See also the adjective tony , which I have only ever encountered thrice in Ulysses :. Poor Mrs Purefoy! Methodist husband. Method in his madness.
Saffron bun and milk and soda lunch in the educational dairy. Eating with a stopwatch, thirtytwo chews to the minute. Still his muttonchop whiskers grew. Supposed to be well connected. One tony relative in every family. Do you remember a long long time, years and years ago, just after Milly, Marionette we called her, was weaned when we all went together to Fairyhouse races, was it?
He understood, however, from all he heard, that Dr Mulligan was a versatile allround man, by no means confined to medicine only, who was rapidly coming to the fore in his line and, if the report was verified, bade fair to enjoy a flourishing practice in the not too distant future as a tony medical practitioner drawing a handsome fee for his services β¦ [Eumaeus]. I have encountered tony in this sense in crosswords. But that scarcely counts as real life.
Noetica: Tony is a lot more common in America than any of the related senses of the noun ton. Brewer: The use of hack whore sounds fine to me. It seems to have been a fixed idiomatic expression, and I have come across it now and then in older works. However, whore is already derisive on its own. I may have expressed myself with unnecessary prolixity, but I meant to say that I do in fact use it very occasionally. Noetica: I have always understood American cartoonist Tony Millionaire to have picked his moniker with that sense in mind.
