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Swinney vs Spinney - What's the difference?

swinney | spinney |

As nouns the difference between swinney and spinney

is that swinney is while spinney is (uk) a small copse or , especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.

swinney

English

Noun

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  • * 1872 , American agriculturist: Volume 31
    • Swinney is altogether an imaginary disease.
    (Webster 1913)

    spinney

    English

    Alternative forms

    * spinny

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A small copse or , especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , 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 ----