Shinty vs Shitty - What's the difference?
shinty | shitty |
(sports) A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.
(vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.
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(US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.
(British, Australia, NZ, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.
(vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
As a noun shinty
is a game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.As an adjective shitty is
very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.shinty
English
Noun
(-)Synonyms
* camanachdReferences
*The Camanachd Association
shitty
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Adjective
(er)- The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.
- I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.
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- It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.
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- The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.
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- Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.
- Don't get shitty at me!