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Abbreviation of cartoon.

• 'toon

toon (plural toons)

1. (informal) A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
   • 2005, Sara Bell, The Magic in Your Touch, →ISBN, page 123:

     Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?

2. (informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
   • 2010, Ben Kei Daniel, Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities, →ISBN:

     Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.

3. (informal) An animated cartoon character.
   • 2025 June 25, Wikipedia‎^[1]:

     In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans, often employing their skills to entertain as film stars.

• toon shading, toon-shaded

Borrowed from Hindi तून (tūn), from Sanskrit तुणि (tuṇi, “Cedrela toona”).

toon (countable and uncountable, plural toons)

1. A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
   • 1973, Gerald A. Walters, Herbert L. Wick, Coppicing to convert cull Australian toon, tropical ash to acceptable trees:

     Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated.

2. The wood of this tree.
   • 1972, Roger G. Skolmen, Paintability of four woods in Hawaii, page 1:

     After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australian toon.

• (tree): Australian red cedar, tone, toona
• (wood): toonwood

Dialectal variant of town.

• (Geordie) IPA^(key): [tuːn]

toon (plural toons)

1. (Scotland, Geordie) A town.
   • 1865, George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen - Volume 2, page 244:

     Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon.

   • 1881, B.C., “The Chestnut Tree”, in The Border Counties' Magazine - Volumes 1-2, number 201:

     Sic changes owre oor toon hae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.

   • 2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, →ISBN, page 43:

     It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae the toon o Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.

• Toon

toon (plural toons)

1. Eye dialect spelling of tune.
   • 1872, David Ross Locke, The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby, page 556:

     But why dress me in bloo? Why not in gray, ef I play Confedrit toons?

   • 1876, Eneas Sweetland Dallas -, Once a Week, page 45:

     Hark at the way them wires plays toons, as if all the imps of wickedness, and—never mind where—was fiddling dismal toons on purpose to drive a man out of his wits, or to scare him so that he couldn't do his work.

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 39:

     “But toon up, and a song all round.”

   • 2013, Joseph Connolly, S.O.S., →ISBN:

     Why suddenly you're so eager to know the toon, now, Dwight? Before you was saying you didn't even hear no toon.

• looney toon, loony toon

• List of English words of Sanskrit origin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “toon”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

• Noto, noot, noto-, on to, onto, onto-, oont, tono-

From Dutch toon, dialectal form of teen, from Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. The vocalism -oo- is also present in some Dutch dialects in Utrecht and Holland, but seems unclear. The -n was originally a plural ending that was reanalysed as a singular form.

toon (plural tone, diminutive toontjie)

1. toe (part of the foot)

• langtoon

From Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.

toon (plural tone)

1. tone, pitch

From Dutch tonen, from Middle Dutch tônen, from Old Dutch *tōnen.

toon (present toon, present participle tonende, past participle getoon)

1. (transitive) to show, to demonstrate

• IPA^(key): /toːn/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [toːn]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [toʊ̯n]

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• Hyphenation: toon
• Rhymes: -oːn

From Middle Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.

toon m (plural tonen, diminutive toontje n)

1. tone

   De toon van de muziek was somber. ― The tone of the music was somber.

• Afrikaans: toon
• → Indonesian: ton, tona (from plural)

toon m (plural tonen, diminutive toontje n)

1. (dialectal) dated form of teen (“toe”)
2. (archaic) the front portion of a hoof

Still used in some dialects in Utrecht and Holland in the meaning “toe”. This variant seems to have been quite common in Hollandic dialects until the 19th century. Similar forms have also been found to exist in certain West Frisian and Dutch Low Saxon dialects.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

toon

1. inflection of tonen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• noot

toón

1. (anatomy) nape

toon m

1. garlic

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtòːn]

toon (plural toonoʼob)

1. penis

   Synonym: keep

• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 77