Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ice, street, or field hockey played informally with a ball, can, or similar object.
- n. The stick used when playing this game.
- v. To climb by shinning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The game of hockey or bandy-ball. See hockey.
- n. 2. The club used in this game.
- To play shinny; knock the ball at shinny.
Wiktionary
- v. To climb in an awkward manner.
- n. Canada An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
- n. Canada Street hockey.
- n. Canada, informal Hockey.
- n. Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
WordNet 3.0
- n. a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck
- v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Etymologies
- Variation of shinty. (Wiktionary)
- Probably from the phrase shin ye, a cry used in the game.Alteration of shin1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Love the chrysanthas in bud…looks like some kind of shinny metal…just wild.”
“I suppose what I call "shinny" was really La Crosse.”
“This was similar to the boys 'game of "shinny," or, as it is now more elegantly known, "polo," and the bat used was bent at the end, just as now.”
“Huh! Father Tom says it's nothing but old-fashioned 'shinny' with a fancy name tacked onto it," declared Bobby Hargrew.”
The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize
“He'll let you play 'shinny' in the halls if you want to.”
“Libby Anne, limping painfully, put her "shinny" stick into Bud's hand.”
“Out on the well-tramped school-yard the boys and girls were playing "shinny," which is an old and honourable game, father or uncle of hockey.”
“In the feminine game of ball, which is something like "shinny," the ball is driven with curved sticks between two goals.”
“I mean she would never 'shinny' up a straight, slivery beam.”
“But if the caviare or roe was really in those days "caviare to the general" multitude, the _nose_ of the fish was not, it being greatly coveted by us small boys wherewith to make a ball for "shinny," which for some occult reason was preferred to any other.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shinny’.
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Hockey
As the playoffs are on, some Hockey terms, and likely some Canadianisms in here.
face off, playoff beard, playoff, faceoff, bodycheck, hipcheck, icing, pass, facemask, stick, puck, Peter Puck and 182 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Ball Games and Sports
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...Basque pelota, bocce, pitch, crease, cricket, bowls, field, gridiron, court, basketball, netball, soccer and 106 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Stalking Darkness
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Stalking Darkness.
inquest, halyard, catamount, occlude, founder, more, grouse, grapple, water butt, antepenultimate, palimpsest, hob and 196 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Luck in the Shadows
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Luck in the Shadows.
belly, barbican, pediment, withers, hirsute, oriel, tabard, telesm, thaumaturgy, switch, spargetaction, towheaded and 125 more...
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unusual
zoonotic, escarpment, rampart, bulwark, booby-traps, booby, lipid, synapse, axon, ressentiment, solipsism, panacea and 71 more...
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Moonshine
screech, moonshine, hooch, rotgut, firewater, bootleg, red-eye, sauce, varnish, mountain dew, sly grog, poteen and 30 more...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's quirky words
mucker, keen, sophistry, lascivious, sequestered, licentious, picayune, light-weight, epicurean, shinny, pharisee, prosy and 2 more...
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