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shinny | shimmery |

As a verb shinny

is to climb in an awkward manner.

As a noun shinny

is an informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.

As an adjective shimmery is

appearing to shimmer, glistening.

shinny

English

Etymology 1

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Verb

  • To climb in an awkward manner.

    • Etymology 2

    Variation of shinty.

    Noun

    (wikipedia shinny) (-) or shinny hockey
  • (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
  • * 2010 , Jason 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.
  • * ibidem , 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.
  • (Canada) Street hockey.
  • (Canada, informal) Hockey.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
  • * 1960 , , chapter 13,
    • Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;....
  • * Ibid.,
    • 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.

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    shimmery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Appearing to shimmer, glistening.
  • * 1957 , Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
    • And then, far off, around a curve of silver track, comes the trolley, balanced on four small steel-blue wheels, and it is painted the color of tangerines. Epaulets of shimmery brass cover it and pipings of gold

    Derived terms

    * shimmeriness

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