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Example sentences for: loonie

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Mulroney rhymes with loonie .
Although the terms loonie , a diminutive noun from loon , and loony , an adjective (ultimately) from lunar are etymologically distinct, their similarity has encouraged obvious satirical connections: our economy, which is loony, has as its fundamental unit of currency the loonie; many felt that the policies of Brian Mulroney were loony.
We're tiny, we're tuney We haven't got a loonie Because of Brian Mulroney and the stupid G.S.T.
The Mint, as usual, is no help—they refer to the new coin unimaginatively as the two-dollar coin, so the letters columns of every newspaper in the country have been filled with speculation and suggestions for a slang term for this new coin, which is slightly larger than the loonie, gold-coloured and polygonal (like the loonie), but with a silver centre with a polar bear pictured on it.
Once the design was released, the name bruin was suggested by many people, but the name that appears to be winning is doubloonie, combining the double loonie with a reference to a traditional coin said to be favoured by pirates—again, a not-too-subtle satirical reference to the appetite for taxation of most governments.