Bight vs Shiny - What's the difference?
bight | shiny |
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
*1905 ,
An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
A curve in a rope
*1899 ,
Reflecting light.
* :
Emitting light.
(colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
(obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
* The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
(informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
As nouns the difference between bight and shiny
is that bight is a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow while shiny is (informal) anything shiny; a trinket.As an adjective shiny is
reflecting light.bight
English
Noun
(en noun)- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
- I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.
See also
*shiny
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
- Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
- When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.
