goney

goney (plural goneys)

1. Alternative form of gooney.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     But some time after, I learned that goney was some seaman's name for albatross.

• Yonge, ygone