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Spinny vs Shinny - What's the difference?

spinny | shinny |

As nouns the difference between spinny and shinny

is that spinny is an alternative spelling of lang=en while shinny is an informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.

As an adjective spinny

is associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.

As a verb shinny is

to climb in an awkward manner.

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)

    shinny

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Verb

  • To climb in an awkward manner.

    • Etymology 2

    Variation of shinty.

    Noun

    (wikipedia shinny) (-) or shinny hockey
  • (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
  • * 2010 , Jason Blake], Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study , (University of Toronto Press), ISBN 9780802099846 (cloth-bound), ISBN 9780802097132 (paperback), chapter two: “The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia”, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fAzYyPeoiRUC&pg=PA63&dq=shinny&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EP3EUvaKOK-o0wWyyIC4Bg&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCDge#v=onepage&q=shinny&f=false page 63:
    • In shinny , everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains.
  • * ibidem , page 70:
    • Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus'' in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny''' is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In ' shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded.
  • (Canada) Street hockey.
  • (Canada, informal) Hockey.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
  • * 1960 , , chapter 13,
    • Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;....
  • * Ibid.,
    • He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.

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