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- noun Plural form of
spinny .
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Examples
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There are in the French Postal Directory eight places called Épinay, from épine, thorn, but these do not exhaust the number of "spinnies" in France.
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His lordship thought that as Mr. Morton was there the hounds might as well be run through the Bragton spinnies.
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He sang, and sang well, everything from his native chants through human folk ballads on to the very latest spinnies.
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To add zest to the chase, Clem now let Looney slip as a kind of bag-fox, and the half-witted creature went lumbering and blubbering about in real terror of his life, whilst his pursuers encouraged his speed with artifices in which the animated spinnies and coverts deferentially joined.
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