toon
toon Lexical Profile
toon Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An animated cartoon, or a character in an animated film, television show, or video game (informal).
"Saturday mornings used to be the prime time for kids to watch their favorite toons on television."
Scottish A town, village, or farmstead (also used in northern England, especially as a nickname for Newcastle upon Tyne).
"Many locals headed into the toon on Saturday afternoon to watch the football match."
A large deciduous tree of the mahogany family (Toona ciliata), native to southern Asia and Australia, or its fragrant reddish timber used in furniture and cabinetmaking.
"The antique chest was crafted from polished Indian toon, prized for its durable reddish timber."
• Rhymes for toon
Word Origin & Etymology
In the sense of an animated character or film, the word is a 20th-century clipping of 'cartoon' (popularized by the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit). The botanical sense derives from Hindi tun and Sanskrit tunna, while the northern British and Scottish sense meaning 'town' preserves the unshifted Old English pronunciation of tun.
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