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SHINNEY

Definition: SHINNEY

SHINNEY

Noun

1. The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Shinney \Shin"ney\, noun. [Compare to Shindy.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: SHINNEY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones, marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag;

Ascent

Climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SHINNEY

Etymologies containing "SHINNEY": shindy. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SHINNEY" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (eldest, oldest).

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Name Usage Frequency: SHINNEY

The following table summarizes the usage of "SHINNEY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
ShinneyLast name13067,913
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SHINNEY

Language Translations for "SHINNEY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

хоккей (hockey, icing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SHINNEY

Derivations

Words beginning with "SHINNEY": shinneyed, shinneying, shinneys. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SHINNEY"

Words rhyming with "SHINNEY" (pronounced 'Shin"ney'): Carney, Chimney, kidney, Macartney, Pigsney, Rumney, Turney. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SHINNEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-n-s-y"

-1 letter: shinny.

-2 letters: hinny, nines, shine, shiny.

-3 letters: hens, hies, hins, hisn, inns, nine, shin, sine, sinh, snye, syne, yens, yins.

-4 letters: ens, hen, hes, hey, hie, hin, his, inn, ins, sei, sen, she, shy, sin, syn, yeh, yen, yes, yin.

-5 letters: eh, en, es, he, hi, in, is, ne, sh, si, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-n-s-y"
 

+1 letter: shinnery, shinneys.

 

+2 letters: shinneyed.

 

+3 letters: phenytoins, phrensying, shinneying, strychnine.

 

+4 letters: deinonychus, hemocyanins, hypotension, monkeyshine, strychnines, synchronies, synchronise, synchronize.

 

+5 letters: asynchronies, hyperintense, hypertension, hyphenations, hypotensions, monkeyshines, ninnyhammers, pennyweights, pennywhistle, synchroneity, synchronised, synchronises, synchronized, synchronizer, synchronizes, synthesizing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: SHINNEY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 48 49 4E 4E 45 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    ..    -.    -.    .    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01001110 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#78 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0049 004E 004E 0045 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53424348483959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Names: Frequency
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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