Shiny vs Slimy - What's the difference?
shiny | slimy |
Reflecting light.
* :
Emitting light.
(colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
(obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
* The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
(informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
Of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.
(slang, figuratively) friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; sneaky.
A ponyfish.
As adjectives the difference between shiny and slimy
is that shiny is reflecting light while slimy is of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.As nouns the difference between shiny and slimy
is that shiny is (informal) anything shiny; a trinket while slimy is a ponyfish.shiny
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
- Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
- 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
* shininessNoun
(shinies)slimy
English
Adjective
(er)- Slimy things did crawl with legs
- Upon the slimy sea. —Coleridge.