What's the difference between barney and blarney?

Barney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
  • (2) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
  • (3) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
  • (4) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
  • (5) Forty-nine out of 50 of the most popular Premier League games were shown on Sky Sports last season and a quick look at our opening schedule of fixtures shows Sky Sports is still the place to go for more of the games that matter,” said Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports.
  • (6) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (7) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Bizarre spectacle as world's press swarms over woman in (very small) chile shirt.
  • (8) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Today I ruined the World Cup by writing an article about how exciting it was.
  • (9) Wales’s epic journey comes to an end as Ronaldo gets to run the Portugal show | Barney Ronay Read more Adrien Silva 6 Provided a teasing cross for Ronaldo from the left wing late in first half and was comfortable in possession without any truly blistering moments.
  • (10) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) @JacobSteinberg come on Steinberg.
  • (11) After issuing a warning yesterday we have no hesitation in taking this action after becoming aware of new information today," said Sky Sports' managing director, Barney Francis.
  • (12) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
  • (13) The conserved open reading frames of Tc1 and Barney share identity with a structurally similar family of elements named HB found in Drosophila melanogaster, after the introduction of 3 small centrally located deletions in HB1.
  • (14) A new look for Darth Vader, as imagined by designer Barney George (www.barneygeorge.com) So how will Episode Seven play out?
  • (15) Northern Ireland are homeward bound but their fans are leaving on a high | Barney Ronay Read more Grigg failed to make it off Northern Ireland’s bench in France, but became one of the names of the tournament after the 90s song Freed From Desire was adapted in his honour.
  • (16) When her career took off at the age of 10 – a childhood of performing in the living room led to a stint jollying around with Barney the purple dinosaur in the 90s series Barney & Friends – Gomez's mother, Mandy Cornett, became her manager, a relationship Gomez now describes as "like a Gilmore Girls bond, except the dialogue's not as clever".
  • (17) The Sky Sports managing director, Barney Francis, said he had spoken to Keys and Gray personally.
  • (18) Until the 2008 financial crisis, Citi was able to claim to be one of the biggest financial institutions in the world as a result of the takeovers it was permitted to make as a result of the legislative changes – including a move into investment banking by buying brokers Smith Barney and parts of Schroders.
  • (19) Barney Chilton, the editor, told the Guardian: "On the Red News forums the percentages have ebbed away from Moyes like the English coastline.
  • (20) England’s future still has promise, but Wayne Rooney is part of the past | Barney Ronay Read more But the surprise is that people are surprised.

Blarney


Definition:

  • (n.) Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.
  • (v. t.) To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But there will probably always be a rump that waves away terms like "human dignity" as so much leftwing blarney; who think foreigners are fundamentally different and are worth less, who think it's important to clean behind fridges, and furthermore, that women should be doing it; who think if they're ever caught out they can call it a joke, and that their joke will be hilarious.
  • (2) The Stokes are the nearest neighbours to Apple's Cork offices, just north of the Blarney Road.
  • (3) The identity of each is a tightly guarded secret of the agency, with each referred by the codenames STROMBREW, FAIRVIEW, BLARNEY and OAKSTAR.

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