Shinnied vs Shinned - What's the difference?
shinnied | shinned |
(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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(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 shinnied and shinned
is that shinnied is past tense of shinny while shinned is past tense of shin.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.
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- 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.
References
*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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