Spiniest vs Shiniest - What's the difference?
spiniest | shiniest |
(spiny)
covered in spines or thorns
troublesome; difficult or vexing
* Bishop Warburton
Like a spine in shape; slender.
* Chapman
(shiny)
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 adjectives the difference between spiniest and shiniest
is that spiniest is (spiny) while shiniest is (shiny).spiniest
English
Adjective
(head)spiny
English
Adjective
(er)- the spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy
- Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping.
Synonyms
* (covered in spines) thorny, prickly * (troublesome) thorny, pricklyshiniest
English
Adjective
(head)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.