Shinny vs Shimmery - What's the difference?
shinny | shimmery |
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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Appearing to shimmer, glistening.
* 1957 , Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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
.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.
References
*shimmery
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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