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Spinner vs Spinnier - What's the difference?

spinner | spinnier |

As a noun spinner

is agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.

As an adjective spinnier is

comparative of spinny.

spinner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * ring spinner

    Anagrams

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    spinnier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (spinny)

    • spinny

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) spina .

    Noun

    (spinnies)
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies .

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.
  • * 1997 , DAN Seemiller, M Holowchak, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies - all 3 versions »
    • The sound at contact should be solid and crisp, not “spinny .”
  • * 2003 , Ian S. Ginns, Stephen J. Norton, and Campbell J. McRobbie, "Adding Value to the Teaching and Learning of Design and Technology", in Pupils Attitudes Towards Technology Annual Conference June 2003 , p 115-118
    • “It is a spinny thing with wires in it, with the wires wrapped around something (coil) and N and S (unsure what N and S were)."
  • * 2006 , J Purkis, Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome
    • Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.

    Etymology 3

    Compare spiny.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) thin and long; slim; slender
    • (Webster 1913)