Shinny vs Sunny - What's the difference?
shinny | sunny |
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)
* 1960 , , chapter 13,
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(of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
(of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
(figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
* Shakespeare
Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(US, regional) sunny side up
As nouns the difference between shinny and sunny
is that shinny is (canada) an informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball or shinny can be moonshine (illegal alcohol) while sunny is a sunfish.As a verb shinny
is to climb in an awkward manner.As an adjective sunny is
(of weather or a day) featuring a lot of sunshine.As an adverb sunny is
(us|regional) sunny side up.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
*sunny
English
Adjective
(er)- Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
- the sunny side of a hill
- I would describe Spain as sunny , but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.
- a sunny disposition
- My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.
- sunny beams
- sunny locks
