Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 55 compound words that contain phony. The most common are listed below. Open phony in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- Phony StarkA nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
- Phony WarAlternative form of Phoney War: During World War II, the period of limited military activity from the outbreak of hostilities on September 3rd, 1939 until Germany's attack on the Low Countries on May 10th, 1940.
- phony as a three-dollar billExtremely phony; fake; dishonest; completely bogus.
- phony upTo create a false version of something.
- peach phony diseaseA disease of peach trees, caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, that causes the tree to produce a few small, colorful fruits and eventually to stop producing fruit altogether.
- phony diseaseSynonym of peach phony disease: A disease of peach trees, caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, that causes the tree to produce a few small, colorful fruits and eventually to stop producing fruit altogether.
- phony peach diseaseSynonym of peach phony disease: A disease of peach trees, caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, that causes the tree to produce a few small, colorful fruits and eventually to stop producing fruit altogether.
- phony-baloneyfake; fraudulent
Compound words 55
- cacophonyA mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
- euphonyA pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
- pleophonyThe phenomenon by which the Late Proto-Slavic "liquid diphthongs", formed from a vowel followed by a liquid *r or *l, become disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages.
- psychophonyVocal communication with the dead or with spirits.
- metaphonyA sound change in which a vowel's pronunciation is affected by another.
- acrophonyThe naming of letters in an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are represented by the respective letters.
- dodecaphonyTwelve-tone music, a form of composition using all twelve tones of the chromatic scale in such a way that they are equal, i.e. having no tonic, no dominant, no major key or minor keys, and no distinction between harmony and dissonance.
- homeophonyPhonic similarity; the quality of being similar-sounding.
- stereophonyThe reproduction of stereophonic sound.
- orthophonyThe art of correct articulation / speaking