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shinny
1[ shin-ee ]
noun
- a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
- the club used.
verb (used without object)
- to play shinny.
- to drive the ball at shinny.
shinny
2[ shin-ee ]
verb (used without object)
He shinnied up the tree.
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Origin of shinny1
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Example Sentences
Father Tom says its nothing but old-fashioned shinny with a fancy name tacked onto it, declared Bobby Hargrew.
Would the public meekly submit to this standard and shinny up poles all their lives?
He apes your fashion in suspenders, the tilt of your cap, your method in shinny.
"Just cut one of these smaller trees, brace it against the crotch of the sycamore, and shinny up it," Melinda asserted.
They play football and several kinds of shinny, using long bones for shinny sticks.
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