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▪ I. shinny, n.1|ˈʃɪnɪ|
Also shinney, shinnie.
[? f. the cry used in the game shin ye, shin you (also shin your side), of obscure origin; cf. hummie, a dial. name for shinty, and the cry hun you, shin you (Sheffield Gloss.); see also shinty. Other dial. names of the game are shinnins, shinnock, shinnup; also shinder vb.]
A (north-country and American) game similar to hockey, played with a ball and sticks curved at one end; also, the stick and the ball used in this game.
1672in Maidment Bk. Scotish Pasquils (1868) 181 He..did transub Himself to ball, the Parliament to club, Which will him holl when right teased at ane blow, Or els Sir Patrick will be the shinnie goe. 1794Gentl. Mag. Mar. 216 Shinney, a stick rounding at one end, to strike a small wooden ball with. 1810Ann. Reg. 532 Contending parties, in the northern counties of England, exert themselves to drive the shinney to its goal. 1860J. F. Campbell Tales W. Highl. (1890) I. 102 He..gets him to make an iron shinny. 1893Leland Mem. I. 51 The nose of the [sturgeon] fish..being greatly coveted by us small boys wherewith to make a ball for ‘shinny’.
attrib.1794Gentl. Mag. Mar. 216 Shinney-hah, a game so called. 1825R. Chambers Trad. Edin. II. 78 A group of little pensioners, who regularly annoyed him for a shinny ball, or some such article. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. II. xxi. 206 Each of them had a walrus-rib for a..shinny-stick.
▸ N. Amer. (orig. Canad.). A simple or informal game of ice hockey, esp. one played outdoors. Also attrib., esp. in shinny hockey.
1847in Origin Hockey in Canada (1942) 2 Most of the soldier boys were quite at home on skates. They could cut the figure eight and other fancy figures, but ‘shinny’ was their great delight. 1895J. M. Oxley My Strange Rescue 341 As first played in Canada, hockey went by various names, some of which were apparently merely local—hurley, shinny, rickets, and so forth. It was played only upon the ice in winter-time, and there was not much pretence to rules. 1927Nashua (Iowa) Reporter (Electronic text) 2 Feb. The way to become a whirlwind hockey player..or a breath-taking fancy skater..is to get out and play shinny. 1964Star Weekly 5 Dec. 21/1 No shinny stuff for these boys..taught in big league style by Richard Caouette. 1990Sports Illustr. 8 Oct. 18/2 Today the sport's bucolic roots are reflected in the term shinny hockey, the informal version of the game in which anything handy—a chunk of wood, a shard of ice, a clod of frozen horseplop—will serve as the smackable center of attention.
▪ II. shinny, n.2 Southern U.S.|ˈʃɪnɪ|
[Alteration of shine n.1 3 b: see -y6.]
= moonshine 4.
1934in Webster. 1944D. Van de Voort in B. A. Botkin Treas. Amer. Folklore v. 686 Wiley went over to the safe and got out his pappy's jug of shinny. 1960H. Lee To kill Mockingbird xiii. 139 Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight. 1972J. Carr Second Oldest Profession xi. 166 There are often regional names by which the illicit distillate is recognized. Some of these are ‘cannonball swig’..‘preacher's lye’..‘shinny’..‘kickapoo joy juice’.
▪ III. shinny, v. U.S.|ˈʃɪnɪ|
[f. shin n.1]
intr. To shin up a tree. Also with down, absol., and with advb. acc., as to shinny one's way.
1888T. Stevens Around the World 307 The trees..are..swarming with monkeys... Shinnying up the toddy-palms. 1936J. Steinbeck In Dubious Battle vi. 86 Jim shinnied down the tree. 1937Sun (Baltimore) 23 Oct. 12/7 It is difficult to imagine a man over 60 shinnying up a porch post. 1967‘E. Queen’ Face to Face xiii. 61 Somehow he's managed to shinny his way back into her good graces. 1976Daily Tel. 29 Sept. 15/2 They must..shinny up ropes, and slide down vines. 1977Time 4 Apr. 42/2 Coming on fast is Robert Shaw, Israeli counter⁓terrorist, who must shinny down a rope from a helicopter.
Hence ˈshinnying vbl. n.
1906Washington Post 22 May 2 As its girth precluded ‘shinnying’, Gladden procured a ladder. |
