shinny
1 Americannoun
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shinnies
plural
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a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
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the club used.
verb (used without object)
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to play shinny.
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to drive the ball at shinny.
verb (used without object)
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of shinny1
First recorded in 1665–75; variant of shin ye, cry used in the game
Origin of shinny2
1850–55, apparently derivative of shin 1; source of -y is unclear
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For the climbing task, the winning design evolved two arms and two legs that help it shinny up a shaft like an ape.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2021
It’s not easy to practice in summer skates that are more like shinny than postseason hockey, but McDavid has taken it upon himself to try.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
In Oshie’s first year at Warroad, Eades remembered, he was the ringleader of the team that loved to play shinny hockey.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2021
The local tennis courts at Wedgewood Park were flooded for wintertime hockey, becoming a key site for shinny, or street hockey, that the Hugheses called O.D.R. for “outdoor rink.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2019
When the big limbs are gone we shinny back down and set our machetes to biting into the trunk.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Zacchaeus shinnies down the tree and repents, saying that that he will repay anyone he has defrauded “four times as much.”
From Time ● Oct. 12, 2015
In Iron Men he shinnies up a vertical girder, using only his hands and his knees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, she finds a tree behind the building and shinnies up as I watch from below, holding jay's cage.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
Rani shinnies down the tree and lands beside me.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
“Jo says Mrs. Merlin shinnies on her own side,” added Billy.
From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford
That same day, the Associated Press reported, the male raccoon shinnied up a tall tree on the White House lawn, and, like Rebecca, would not come down.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
As police later reconstructed it, Mark Willey had shinnied up the tree with his rifle slung over his back.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
Fans shinnied up a traffic-light post outside the luxury hotel where the Lakers stayed, hoping to get a glimpse of Kobe Bryant boarding the team bus among dozens and dozens of cordoned-off people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2015
Patrick Wallace, a worker in a local paper plant, shinnied up a tree to reach the fallen highway.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alice shinnied up a rope she had made of basswood bark, and I followed.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
And Gittens Anglaise, 43, of Colihaut, related tales of leaping from a window and shinnying across the water along electrical wires "like Rambo".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2015
They'll be shinnying up every suspension cable on the north side of the western span, affixing individual L.E.D. lights at a spacing of 1 every 12 inches.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2012
In the year of the census, Montana's grizzly bears are standing up -- or, rather, shinnying up against trees -- to be counted.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2010
He went to the polls with his parents, ruined one pair of knickerbockers after another shinnying up poles to take down campaign posters.
From Time Magazine Archive
I blew out my lantern, pulled off my shoes and socks, and started shinnying up the tree.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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