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Shiny vs Sippy - What's the difference?

shiny | sippy |

As nouns the difference between shiny and sippy

is that shiny is (informal) anything shiny; a trinket while sippy is a little sip; less than a cup of some particular drink.

As an adjective shiny

is reflecting light.

shiny

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Reflecting light.
  • * :
    • Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
  • Emitting light.
  • (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
  • (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
  • * (rfdate) (Dryden)
    • Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
  • * The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
    • When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
    Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
    Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
    Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.

    Derived terms

    * shininess

    Noun

    (shinies)
  • (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.

    • sippy

    English

    Noun

    (sippies)
  • A little sip; less than a cup of some particular drink
  • *{{quote-book, 1999, , Power Plays: Three One-Act Plays citation
    • , passage=Would you like a little water, Sue? SUE. Well, perhaps a sippy . (SUE squirts some water into a paper cup.)}}
  • *{{quote-book, 2002, David McKnight, From Hunting to Drinking, page=108, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=26vDIDK_GuIC&pg=PA108, isbn=0415271517
    • , passage=By going to the canteen as soon as it opened some people hoped to cadge money, or one or more cans, or at least a 'sippy '. }}

    Related terms

    *sippy cup