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Spinney vs Shinney - What's the difference?

spinney | shinney |

As nouns the difference between spinney and shinney

is that spinney is a small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds while shinney is the game of hockey.

spinney

English

Alternative forms

* spinny

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK) A small copse or , especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
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    • , title= , chapter=2 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. […]”}}
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    • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 ----

    shinney

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The game of hockey.
    • (Halliwell)

    See also

    * shinny (Webster 1913)