BARNEY


Meaning of BARNEY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

In Commonwealth hackish, `barney' is to fred (sense #1) as bar is to foo . That is, people who commonly use `fred' as their first metasyntactic variable will often use `barney' second. The reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.