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Shinned vs Shunned - What's the difference?

shinned | shunned |

As verbs the difference between shinned and shunned

is that shinned is (shin) while shunned is (shun).

shinned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shin)

    • shin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) shine, from (etyl) scinu, from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
  • A fishplate for a railway.
    • (Knight)
    Synonyms
    * tibia
    Related terms
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    Verb

    (shinn)
  • 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 shin up a mast
  • To strike with the shin.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 5 , author=Mark Ashenden , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner. }}
  • (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
    • (Bartlett)
    Synonyms
    * shinny (US)
    Derived terms
    * shinny * shin bone * shin leaf * shin splints

    Etymology 2

    Ultimately from (etyl) . Compare Shamash.

    Alternative forms

    * sheen *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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    shunned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shun)

    • shun

    English

    Verb

    (shunn)
  • To avoid, especially persistently.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
  • To screen, hide.
  • To shove, push.

    • Derived terms

    * shunless * shunnable * shunner

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