Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To play shinny; knock the ball at shinny.
- noun The game of hockey or bandy-ball. See
hockey . - noun 2. The club used in this game.
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- verb To
climb in an awkward manner. - noun Canada An informal game of
pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball. - noun Canada
Street hockey . - noun Canada, informal
Hockey . - noun
Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
- verb climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Etymologies
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Examples
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Love the chrysanthas in bud…looks like some kind of shinny metal…just wild.
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I suppose what I call "shinny" was really La Crosse.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various
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This was similar to the boys 'game of "shinny," or, as it is now more elegantly known, "polo," and the bat used was bent at the end, just as now.
Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward
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"Huh! Father Tom says it's nothing but old-fashioned 'shinny' with a fancy name tacked onto it," declared Bobby Hargrew.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize 1914
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He'll let you play 'shinny' in the halls if you want to.
Flowing Gold Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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Libby Anne, limping painfully, put her "shinny" stick into Bud's hand.
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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Libby Anne, limping painfully, put her "shinny" stick into Bud's hand.
The Second Chance 1910
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Out on the well-tramped school-yard the boys and girls were playing "shinny," which is an old and honourable game, father or uncle of hockey.
The Second Chance 1910
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In the feminine game of ball, which is something like "shinny," the ball is driven with curved sticks between two goals.
Old Indian Days 1907
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In the feminine game of ball, which is something like "shinny," the ball is driven with curved sticks between two goals.
Indian Child Life Charles Alexander Eastman 1898
tankhughes commented on the word shinny
I saw this used like shimmy, in the past tense "shinnied up the log to the shore" in a book from 1946. Not sure which is older or if they're related. At first I thought it was a printer typography error where 2 n's equal 1 m, but then we're still missing an m.
December 13, 2022