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loonie

loonie

1 8.5
A Canadian coin worth one dollar with a loon on it
  • noun
  • /ˈluːni/
  • Canadian
translation icon : loonie
  • He paid for his coffee with a loonie after finding it in his pocket.
  • a loonie or two

So they have like yen, rupee, penny looney which is a type of coin in Canada.

Examples

  • The gold-colored Canadian loonie features the image of a loon on one side.

  • These coins are the one-dollar Loonie and the two-dollar Toonie.

    Academic text (1999)

  • I keep waiting for the Canadian government to pull a Switzerland and peg the Loonie to the US dollar.

    Blog text (15)

  • They had these tiny cookies about the size of a loonie available, and she asked politely for one, so I bought it.

    Blog text (28)

  • So I fed the parking meter a loonie and entered into the urban puzzle through this narrow avenue edged with a row of triplexes, eloquent witnesses of a prosperous past and a present at the bottom of an economic crisis.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Alex's own "network of acquaintances" extends only to his cat, Lady Jane, and a homeless man who inhabits the sidewalk outside Alex's apartment and who proffers cryptic wisdom for a loonie.

    Academic text (2013)

  • When I visited Canada, I collected many loonies as souvenirs from my trip.

Synonyms

Canadian dollar
vsloonie
4 1.3

The official money of Canada equal to 100 cents

is a specific metal coin worth that unit and shows a loon image

Surface Forms

loonie singular
loonies plural

Etymology

Loonie comes from the bird loon that is on Canada's one-dollar coin and the small, friendly ending -ie, so the name feels like a 'little loon' you can carry. A helpful way to remember it is that it sounds like loony ('crazy'), but it simply means the Canadian one-dollar coin.