Examples
“In fact, until I got here the only meaning I knew for "shinty" was that it's the Amharic word for "piss".”
“They also are competing against the game of shinty, which is extremely popular, even more than soccer in the Western part of Scotland.”
“Various venuesHebridean Celtic Festival, Stornoway, Wed to 16 JulCeltic music at a family-friendly festival also taking in street art and shinty sessions.”
“Rob was late, as usual, with a sports report on an intercounty shinty game.”
“I lived at the Castle for a year, and had speech of her maybe once that I remember, when she called me to her chamber and gave me the raw side of her tongue for leading a game of shinty through her rose garden.”
“At the moment several screens showed horse races, one showed a Sumo bout, another a kick boxing event and another an Irish shinty game.”
“How aboot the Blairlethen shinty team?' asked one of the welly brothers.”
“The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in”
“Two parties are opposed, the one driving the ball with sticks towards the goal, the other driving it in the opposite direction; in short, a game of shinty.”
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)
“He lay hold on an oaken shinty stick that hung on the wall, property of the ferry-house landlord's son.”
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shinty’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 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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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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burntsox's Words
demarche, biometrics, accommodation, fulsome, callipygian, ruidoso, maelstrom, fjord, simonize, sanitize, fraternity, ahoy and 38 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for shinty.
reesetee Appreciate the warning. Sep 4, 2008
bilby Stand well clear. Sep 4, 2008
reesetee The s-word throws up?? Sep 4, 2008
bilby Ahh, such serendipity! I'm sure the other s-word doesn't bother to throw up interesting things for you. Sep 4, 2008
burntsox a team stick sport played in the Scottish highlands. Found it on the 'Net while searching for the non-word "lozenger." Nov 3, 2007