Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
spinney . - Thin; slender; slim; lank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or Prov. Eng. Thin and long; slim; slender.
- noun A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
spinney . - adjective UK, dialect, obsolete
thin andlong ;slim ;slender - adjective informal Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps we should just use the terms spinny thing guns and reciprocating thing guns.
Xavier Thoughts 2009
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Not even if my coffee is more Bailey's than not, and I am * definitely* loving my spinny chair right now.
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Still, I went out and bought many of their albums (yes, the black shiny spinny things).
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Oh, and please lay off that stupid 360 degree camera spinny move, Bay.
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At this very moment I'm sitting in my spinny chair, drinking my fifth Irish Coffee of the morning, and writing my latest query letter.
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But ye olde spinny drives might eventually go wonky.
EeeRotate Orients Your Laptop Screen For Easy Reading | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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There are too many people who pay for their smokes, beer, lotto tickets, and spinny wheels before health insurance.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Charles Fried on the Constitutionality of the Health Care Mandate 2010
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(I am also saved from envy by my current lack of writerly ambition -- which might have something to do with having several spinny-chair beggars in my care.)
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You would use compiz spinny cubes except for the driver problems that crashes things
Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I have no small children to demand rides in the spinny chair, but this morning my kitten climbed into the refrigerator, settled herself behind the orange juice and refused to come out.
MaryW commented on the word spinny
Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017), ch. 15(The speaker is Australian.)
January 28, 2019