Tinnie vs Tinnier - What's the difference?
tinnie | tinnier |
(Australia, slang) A of beer.
* 2005 , Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude ,
* 2008 , Peter Dragicevich, Jolyon Attwooll, Sydney , Lonely Planet,
* 2011 , Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over ,
(Australia, slang) A small open aluminium boat.
* 2003 , Christopher Cummings, The Mudskipper Cup: A North Queensland Story about Navy Cadets ,
* 2007 , Caroline De Costa, Rookwood Island ,
* 2009 , Rebecca Pannell, Seachange, Where Fish Fly'', Susan Hosking, Rick Hosking, Rebecca Pannell, Nena Bierbaum (editors), ''Something Rich and Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes ,
(New Zealand, slang) Small package of drugs wrapped in foil.
(tinny)
Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
:The object had a tinny appearance.
Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal.
:The shop was filled with tinny tourist geegaws.
Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.
:The piano was not simply out of tune, but had become downright tinny .
As a noun tinnie
is a can of beer.As an adjective tinnier is
comparative of tinny.tinnie
English
Noun
(en noun)page 170,
- Far better to send one of the girls out for a pizza and some tinnies , and then give her undivided attention when she returns.
page 154,
- In a city where alcohol was once the main currency (see p23), it?s little wonder that drinking is a big part of the social fabric – whether it?s knocking back some tinnies on the beach or meeting mates at the pub.
page 378,
- I?m forty and Tyrene says if I keep supping the tinnies at this rate it won?t be long before I?m forty stone! I?m nineteen stone right now and if I had a dollar for every time Tyrene called me a “big, fat, lazy bastard”, I could charter a yacht and sail to the Whitsundays and we live in Perth!
page 355,
- The bullies laughed and whistled and the tinnie turned once more, this time racing straight towards them from the port beam, bows tilted up, spray creaming out.
page 239,
- Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk.
page 56,
- The miracles seem to have followed Kevin and Trevor who have remarkably travelled over fifty-eight nautical miles in little more than a tinnie , encountering all sorts of astounding natural phenomena such as enormous whales and strangely behaving sharks, bixarre star patterns and odd schools of fish.