Definitions
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- noun The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
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- noun obsolete The game of
hockey .
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- noun a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck
Etymologies
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Examples
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When we had nothing else to do in the way of enjoyment we played the game of "shinney" - a game that gave great pleasure to us all.
The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, 1895
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In the woodpile he noticed "shinny-sticks" where their owners had put them for safe-keeping – he knew all the "hidie-holes," though it was years and years since he had played "shinney" here.
The Second Chance 1910
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Every one resident in the midland counties must be acquainted with the word _nog_, applied to the wooden ball used in the game of "shinney," the corresponding term of which, _nacket_, holds in parts of Scotland, where also a short, corpulent person is called a _nuget_.
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"shinney-sticks" where their owners had put them for safe-keeping -- he knew all the "hidie-holes," though it was years and years since he had played "shinney" here.
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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After that get some quic blue (like a majic marker) to put on the shinney metal inside the notch exposed by the filing.
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After that get some quic blue (like a majic marker) to put on the shinney metal inside the notch exposed by the filing.
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It would no doubt surprise the reader, and no less so our Honorable Secretary of the Navy, should I say that I have seen George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Rip Van Winkle, Allen G. Thurman and Hillary Herbert engaged together in a game of shinney.
Naming the Indians 1995
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Hockey is usually played on the ice by players on skates, although, like the old game of shinney, it may be played on any level piece of ground.
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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Horace was not strong enough to play baseball, and his mamma had forbidden him to play shinney, so he always stayed with the girls at recess, which was often very inconvenient when Elizabeth and Rosie wanted to teeter by themselves or stay indoors and tell secrets.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
chelster commented on the word shinney
More commonly spelled shinny (q.v.).
September 6, 2010