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doney

noun

doney is a noun meaning “Alternative form of dhoni” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-O-N-E-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of doney is doneys.

What does doney mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of dhoni.

  2. 2

    colloquialgirl, sweetheart, darling, young woman, woman

    May 7, 1927, Uncle Dave Macon, "Tell Her To Come Back Home", Vocalion 5153

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce doney?

    Doney has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of doney

    • doneys plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is doney?

    Doney appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).