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    A barney is a noisy argument — voices up, the kind of row you can hear through a wall. It is British and Australian informal. You have a barney with someone; less often, people use barney as a verb, to argue. It can feel a little closer to a scrap than to a quiet disagreement. Though actually, it is not the man’s name Barney, and it is not the purple dinosaur. People love a neat story that it comes from Barney (“trouble”) in Cockney rhyming slang, but that cannot be right: this word was already around in the 1800s, long before that cartoon.

組成Unknown, for this “argument” word. It is often wrongly explained as Cockney rhyming slang from Barney Rubble (trouble); that story is later than the word. The personal name Barney is a different item (from an Old English name, or from “barley” + “island”) and does not explain the row.

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Barneyname/ˈbɑɹni/

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barneynoun詞源 1/ˈbɑːni/

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    obsoleteslangA lark, a romp, some fun.

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    obsoleteslangA hoax, a humbug, something that is not genuine, a rigged or unfair sporting contest.

    • "Just keep it i' thy mind," entreated the other, as a sort of parting remembrance, "ut I won thee i' fair powell—one toss an' no barney.[…]"
    • Blackguardly barneys called boxing competitions.
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    obsoleteA poor recitation.

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    slangA noisy argument.

    • Gary and Mum went mental, and Gary phoned them up and had a right Barney with them.
    • ‘They had a right barney,’ Dexter said with glee, between mouthfuls. ‘Bloke wouldn′t go. Said he′d write to his MP.’
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    slangA minor physical fight.

    • I got stuck in the middle of a real barney between a couple of tough coppers and a handful of hairy protesters, and I didn't enjoy it one single bit.
    • But he doesn't seem to be so — so angry all the time, and it's ages since he and Aunt Annie had a real barney, with flying fists and screechings, that sort of thing.
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    dialectalA student at Harvard University.

    • There goes that fuckin' Barney right now, with his fuckin' "skiin' trip." We should'a kicked that dude's ass.
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    broadcastingfilmmediaSynonym of blimp (“soundproof cover for a video camera”).

    • You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]

barneyadj詞源 1/ˈbɑːni/

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    obsoleteslanginsane crazy, loony.

barneyverb詞源 1/ˈbɑːni/

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    obsoleteTo recite badly; to fail.

    • What avails it to make a shine in Greek if the next hour one does a barney in calculus.
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    To argue, to quarrel.

barneynoun詞源 2/ˈbɑːni/

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    slangA police officer, usually one who is inferior or overzealous.

    • She called the town Mayberry. She said Barney Fife was in charge.

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