Chinned vs Shinned - What's the difference?
chinned | shinned |
(chin)
(in combination ) Having some specific type of chin or number of chins.
(shin)
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
A fishplate for a railway.
To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
To strike with the shin.
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(US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
As verbs the difference between chinned and shinned
is that chinned is past tense of chin while shinned is past tense of shin.As an adjective chinned
is (in combination) Having some specific type of chin or number of chins.chinned
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)shinned
English
Verb
(head)shin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shine, from (etyl) scinu, from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Synonyms
* tibiaVerb
(shinn)- to shin up a mast
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