Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

take a shining to

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

Syllables
take a shin-ing -to
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of take a shine to (“to become fond of something”).

Etymology

Apparently a recent variant of take a shine to, dating from the 1980s.

Inflected Forms

takes a shining to (present, singular) taking a shining to (participle, present) took a shining to (past) taken a shining to (participle, past)

Synonyms

take a shine to

Questions

What does take a shining to mean?
Synonym of take a shine to (“to become fond of something”).
Where does take a shining to come from?
Apparently a recent variant of take a shine to, dating from the 1980s.

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