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cartooney

noun

Etymology

Blend of cartoon + attorney, or a variation of cartoony.

  1. derived from atorné
  2. inherited from attourne
  3. compounded as cartooney — “cartoon + attorney”

Definitions

  1. An empty and comically overstated threat of legal action, or a mock legal action.

    • Because we who don’t like spam need a good laugh once in a while (other than the occasional guffaws induced by cartooneys), let me share a few samples from my incoming spam cesspool.

  2. Misspelling of cartoony.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cartooney. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA