Spinner vs Spinney - What's the difference?
spinner | spinney |
Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
(obsolete) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
(slang, cinema) Used primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
(computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
(cricket) A spin bowler.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
A goatsucker.
A spinneret.
A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
(UK) A small copse or , especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
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As nouns the difference between spinner and spinney
is that spinner is agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins while spinney is (uk) a small copse or , especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.spinner
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* spinnyNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”}}