Shin vs Shid - What's the difference?
shin | shid |
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).
(obsolete) A piece of firewood four feet long.
(obsolete) A unit of length measuring four feet.
(nonstandard, obsolete, alliteration)
* 1920 Well, gen'lemen, this is better, but a record property shid fetch a record price. — John Galsworthy, The Skin Game , Act II, Scene I
As an initialism shid is
(internet) s'laps '''h'''ead '''i'''n ' d isgust.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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Synonyms
* shinny (US)Derived terms
* shinny * shin bone * shin leaf * shin splintsEtymology 2
Ultimately from (etyl) . Compare Shamash.Alternative forms
* sheen *Noun
(en noun)External links
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English
Noun
(en noun)References
*"shid", accessed on 2005-05-03, which in turn cites: Richard Hayes, The Negociator’s Magazine: or, The most authentick account yet published of the Monies, Weights, and Measures of the Principal Places of Trade in the World. , John Noon, London, 1740, page 206.