Spinny vs Spiny - What's the difference?
spinny | spiny |
* Charles Kingsley
(informal) Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.
* 1997 , DAN Seemiller, M Holowchak, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies - all 3 versions »
* 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
* 2006 , J Purkis, Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome
covered in spines or thorns
troublesome; difficult or vexing
* Bishop Warburton
Like a spine in shape; slender.
* Chapman
As nouns the difference between spinny and spiny
is that spinny is an alternative spelling of lang=en while spiny is archaic form of lang=en.As adjectives the difference between spinny and spiny
is that spinny is associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion while spiny is covered in spines or thorns.spinny
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) spina .Noun
(spinnies)- The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies .
Etymology 2
Adjective
(er)- The sound at contact should be solid and crisp, not “spinny .”
- “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)."
- Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.
Etymology 3
Compare spiny.spiny
English
Adjective
(er)- the spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy
- Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping.