shinny
/ˈʃɪni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains."
- "Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded."
- "Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;...."
- "He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor."
Etymology
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Canadian usage
- Uncountable
- Informal
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.
Inflected Forms
shinnies (present, singular)
shinnying (participle, present)
shinnied (participle, past)
shinnied (past)
shinny hockey (canonical)