[
UK
/ʃˈɪni/
]
VERB
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
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
How To Use shinny In A Sentence
- Slowly, I wrapped my legs around the tree and used an old rope to shinny up.
- In the woodpile he noticed "shinny-sticks" where their owners had put them for safe-keeping – he knew all the "hidie-holes," though it was years and years since he had played "shinney" here. The Second Chance
- Once the biologists finish a survey, the guaceros - armed with guns and climbing gear - shinny up the trees and steal the fledglings.
- The girl wore a wide rimmed black hat full with dark lace, a black gabardine and she stood on the toes of her shinny black buckle shoes to place the rose.
- He'll let you play 'shinny' in the halls if you want to. Flowing Gold
- SURFACTANTS - Aid in helping to keep toilet bowls and urinals stay clean and shinny with every flush.
- Love the chrysanthas in bud…looks like some kind of shinny metal…just wild. Blooms? In January? « Fairegarden
- Seed collectors still use the traditional method of shinnying up the palm trunk, but they must be registered, as it takes years of experience to do the job properly.
- She hadn't grown up on a horse ranch with four older brothers without learning a thing or two about hurdling fences, shinnying up trees and swinging out of barn lofts on old, fraying ropes.
- This isn't about shinny with friends laughing and playing together.
