stony broke

See also: stony-broke

English

Alternative forms

stony-broke

Etymology

From stony (“like a stone”) + broke, after earlier stone broke.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

stony broke (not comparable)

(Britain and Australia, slang) Alternative form of broke: without any money.
- 1890, Albert Barrère & al., A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, Vol. II, p. 120:
  He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:impoverished

Derived terms

stony (as 'broke')

References

stony broke at OneLook Dictionary Search
“broke, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1888.
“stony, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1917.

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