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toon

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See also:Toon,tōon,to-on,and'toon

English

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Etymology 1

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Abbreviation ofcartoon.

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Noun

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toon(pluraltoons)

  1. (informal)Acartoon,especially ananimatedtelevision show.
    • 2005,Sara Bell,The Magic in Your Touch,→ISBN,page123:
      Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than atoonfor almost four months?
  2. (informal,video games)A player'savataror visible character in amassively multiplayer online role-playing game.
    • 2010,Ben Kei Daniel,Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities,→ISBN:
      Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent'stoonin anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.
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Etymology 2

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BorrowedfromHindiतून(tūn),fromSanskritतुणि(tuṇi,“Cedrela toona”).

Noun

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toon(countableanduncountable,pluraltoons)

  1. A southeastAsianandAustraliantree(Toona ciliataorToona australis) of themahoganyfamily with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
    • 1973,Gerald A. Walters, Herbert L. Wick,Coppicing to convert cull Australian toon, tropical ash to acceptable trees:
      Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australiantoonand 40 tropical ash trees were treated.
  2. The wood of this tree.
    • 1972,Roger G. Skolmen,Paintability of four woods in Hawaii,page 1:
      After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australiantoon.
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Etymology 3

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Dialectal variant oftown.

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Noun

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toon(pluraltoons)

  1. (Geordie)Atown.
    • 1865,George MacDonald,Alec Forbes of Howglen - Volume 2,page244:
      Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, fraetoontotoon.
    • 1881,B.C., “The Chestnut Tree”, inThe Border Counties' Magazine - Volumes 1-2,number201:
      Sic changes owre oortoonhae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.
    • 2011,Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee,Braken Fences,→ISBN,page43:
      It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae thetoono Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortresstoonon the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.
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Etymology 4

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Noun

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toon(pluraltoons)

  1. Eye dialectspelling oftune
    • 1872,David Ross Locke,The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby,page556:
      But why dress me in bloo? Why not in gray, ef I play Confedrittoons?
    • 1876,Eneas Sweetland Dallas -,Once a Week,page45:
      Hark at the way them wires playstoons,as if all the imps of wickedness, and—never mind where—was fiddling dismaltoonson purpose to drive a man out of his wits, or to scare him so that he couldn't do his work.
    • 1918,Norman Lindsay,The Magic Pudding,page39:
      “Buttoonup, and a song all round.”
    • 2013,Joseph Connolly,S.O.S.,→ISBN:
      Why suddenly you're so eager to know thetoon,now, Dwight? Before you was saying you didn't even hear notoon.
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Etymology 1

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FromDutchtoon,dialectal form ofteen,fromMiddle Dutchtêe,fromOld Dutch*tēa,fromProto-Germanic*taihwǭ.The vocalism-oo-is also present in some Dutch dialects in Utrecht and Holland, but seems unclear. The-nwas originally a plural ending that was reanalysed as a singular form.

Noun

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toon(pluraltone,diminutivetoontjie)

  1. toe(part of the foot)
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Etymology 2

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FromDutchtoon,ultimately fromLatintonus.

Noun

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toon(pluraltone)

  1. tone,pitch

Etymology 3

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FromDutchtonen,fromMiddle Dutchtônen,fromOld Dutch*tōnen.

Verb

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toon(presenttoon,present participletonende,past participlegetoon)

  1. (transitive)toshow,todemonstrate

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Dutchtoon,ultimately fromLatintonus.

Noun

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toonm(pluraltonen,diminutivetoontjen)

  1. tone
    Detoonvan de muziek was somber.―Thetoneof the music was somber.
    Ze sprak met een strengetoontegen hem.―She spoke to him in a sterntone.
    De verschillendetonenvan de fluit klonken prachtig.―The differenttonesof the flute sounded beautiful.
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  • Afrikaans:toon
  • →Indonesian:ton,tona(from plural)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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toonm(pluraltonen,diminutivetoontjen)

  1. (dialectal)Datedform ofteen(“toe”).
  2. (archaic)thefrontportion of ahoof
Usage notes
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Still used in some dialects in Utrecht and Holland in the meaning “toe”. This variant seems to have been quite common in Hollandic dialects until the 19th century. Similar forms have also been found to exist in certain West Frisian and Dutch Low Saxon dialects.

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.

Verb

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toon

  1. inflection oftonen:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

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Sambali

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Noun

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toón

  1. (anatomy)nape

Somali

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Noun

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toonm

  1. garlic

Yucatec Maya

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Etymology

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(Thisetymologyis missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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toon(pluraltoonoʼob)

  1. penis
    Synonym:keep

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