Hinnied vs Shinnied - What's the difference?
hinnied | shinnied |
(hinny)
The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female donkey).
To whinny
(Geordie) A term of endearment usually for women.
(shinny)
To climb in an awkward manner.
(Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
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(Canada) Street hockey.
(Canada, informal) Hockey.
Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
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As verbs the difference between hinnied and shinnied
is that hinnied is past tense of hinny while shinnied is past tense of shinny.hinnied
English
Verb
(head)hinny
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hinnus – possibly cognate with .Noun
(hinnies)See also
* muleEtymology 2
Alteration of whinny, which is onomatopoeic.Verb
Etymology 3
From standard English honey.Noun
(hinnies)References
* * * *shinnied
English
Verb
(head)shinny
English
Etymology 1
.Verb
Etymology 2
Variation of shinty.Noun
(wikipedia shinny) (-) or shinny hockeyJason Blake], Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study , (University of Toronto Press), ISBN 9780802099846 (cloth-bound), ISBN 9780802097132 (paperback), chapter two: “The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia”, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fAzYyPeoiRUC&pg=PA63&dq=shinny&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EP3EUvaKOK-o0wWyyIC4Bg&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCDge#v=onepage&q=shinny&f=false page 63:
- In shinny , everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains.
page 70:
- Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus'' in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny''' is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In ' shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded.
Etymology 3
Noun
(-)- Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;....
- He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.