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Toni

1. A diminutive of the female given name Antonia, sometimes used as a formal given name.
   • 1979, William Golding, Darkness Visible, page 134:

     "I'm not Toni any more. I'm Antonia." Sophy burst out laughing. "And I'm Sophia."

2. A male given name

Toni (plural Tonis)

1. (US, slang) A homosexual male who approaches male strangers (who are usually straight) and aggressively persists in asking them for sex.

Popular in the 1960s and 1970s, commonly in the Washington, D.C. area.

• The Dictionary of American Slang by Robert L. Chapman

• -tion, -toin, INTO, into, noit, oint, on it

Ultimately from Latin Antōnius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoni/, [ˈtoni], [-ɪ]

Toni m

1. (Switzerland) a diminutive of the male given name Anton, from Latin, equivalent to English Tony

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 32.

Toni m

1. a diminutive of the male given name Anton, from Latin, equivalent to English Tony

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Originally a diminutive of Anttoni (“Anthony”) and Anton.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoni/, [ˈt̪o̞ni]
• Rhymes: -oni
• Syllabification^(key): To‧ni

Toni

1. a male given name from Latin

• Into, into, otin, toin