shinney

English

Etymology

From shindy, from the likelihood of players banging their shins.

Noun

shinney (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The game of hockey.
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See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shinney in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Manx

Adjective

shinney

  1. comparative degree of shenn (“old”)

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
shinneyhinney
after "yn", çhinney		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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