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noun

crony n. (pl. cronies)

A crone. (Obs.) "Marry not an old crony."

An intimate companion; a familiar friend. (Colloq.) "He soon found his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crony" Quotes from Famous Books

... crony one's fidgin to see! Gie us a shak' of thy daddle!" shouted a fellow with a face ...

— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine

... inhabitants, and was a familiar and constant, though not always a welcome visitor to every cottage. Most of the older village men and women had a certain grudging affection for the odd little boy. They were all well aware of, and believed in, the gift which made him, as the nurse had once explained to a crony of hers, "see things which are not there," though not one of them would have cared ...

— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

... girl. Dad wrote me a whole page—wonderful for him!—and said he'd stayed at your house in London, and I was to tack myself on to you and show you round, and see you didn't fret and all the rest of it. Are you wanting a crony, temporary or otherwise? Then here I am at your service. Link an arm and we'll parade the place. I guess by the time we've finished there's not much you won't know about the ...

— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... keep her so," replied the captain, accepting his chair. "We must land too often. Where's your crony?" ...

— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... row of shaded wooden porticos, at the major's next door, at Dr. Graham's, the Scotch surgeon and Wren's especial friend and crony, at the Lynns' and Sanders's beyond, little groups of women and children in cool evening garb, and officers in white, were gathered in merry, laughing chat. Nowhere, save in the eyes of one woman at the commanding officer's, and here at Wren's, seemed there anything ...

— An Apache Princess - A Tale of the Indian Frontier • Charles King

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