phony

Multiple Entries:
  phony    -phone    phoney  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
phony

▶adjective & noun variant spelling of phoney.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-phone/fəʊn/

▶combining form

• 1 denoting an instrument using or connected with sound: megaphone.

• 2 denoting a person who uses a specified language: francophone.

– derivatives
-phonic combining form,
-phony combining form.

– origin from Gk phōnē ‘sound, voice’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
phoney /ˈfəʊni/ (chiefly N. Amer. also phony) informal

▶adjective (phonier, phoniest) not genuine. ▶noun (pl. phoneys or phonies) a fraudulent person or thing.

– derivatives
phonily adverb,
phoniness noun.

– origin C19: of unknown origin.