Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
shinny .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun sports A
game derived fromhurling , and resemblinghockey , played inScotland .
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Examples
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In fact, until I got here the only meaning I knew for "shinty" was that it's the Amharic word for "piss".
Gadling 2010
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They also are competing against the game of shinty, which is extremely popular, even more than soccer in the Western part of Scotland.
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Various venuesHebridean Celtic Festival, Stornoway, Wed to 16 JulCeltic music at a family-friendly festival also taking in street art and shinty sessions.
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Rob was late, as usual, with a sports report on an intercounty shinty game.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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"I lived at the Castle for a year, and had speech of her maybe once that I remember, when she called me to her chamber and gave me the raw side of her tongue for leading a game of shinty through her rose garden."
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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At the moment several screens showed horse races, one showed a Sumo bout, another a kick boxing event and another an Irish shinty game.
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'How aboot the Blairlethen shinty team?' asked one of the welly brothers.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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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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Two parties are opposed, the one driving the ball with sticks towards the goal, the other driving it in the opposite direction; in short, a game of shinty.
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2) John M'lean
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He lay hold on an oaken shinty stick that hung on the wall, property of the ferry-house landlord's son.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
burntsox commented on the word shinty
a team stick sport played in the Scottish highlands. Found it on the 'Net while searching for the non-word "lozenger."
November 3, 2007
bilby commented on the word shinty
Ahh, such serendipity! I'm sure the other s-word doesn't bother to throw up interesting things for you.
September 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word shinty
The s-word throws up??
September 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word shinty
Stand well clear.
September 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word shinty
Appreciate the warning.
September 4, 2008