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barney; barnie
noun- a fight or argument AUSTRALIA, 1858
From British dialect. - The boss and that homie have been having a proper barney over the prad [a horse]. — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 28, 1953
- “Can anyone buy into this barney?” — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 89, 1954
- We had a barney and you stopped us settling it, that’s all. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granda Plays], p. 95, 1959
- [C]an you think of any qualities these fellers have, apart from their ability to look afer themselves in a barney? — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 36, 1962
- — Michael Peters, Pommie Bastard, p. 175, 1969
- I’m not in the mood for a barney. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 81, 2001
- a police officer US
- — Lanie Dills, The Official CB Slanguage Language Dictionary, p. 14, 1976
- an unattractive, unpopular young man US
- — Mitch McKissick, Surf Lingo, 1987
- — Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A. Slang, p. 17, 1989
- I don’t know where she meets these Barnies. — Clueless, 1995
- a new Internet user whose interest will soon lapse US
- Different from a newbie in that newbies become plain decent folk through time and effort; a barney is for good once their ten free hours of AOL time are up[.] — Andy Ihnatko, Cyberspeak, p. 23, 1997
- in the television and film industries, a noise-reducing pad placed over a camera US
- — Tony Miller and Patricia George, Cut! Print!, p. 40, 1977
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