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Definition: Tinny |
TinnyAdjective1. (informal) of very poor quality. 2. Thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an unpleasant tinny voice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tinny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonyms: TinnySynonyms: bum (adj), cheap (adj), cheesy (adj), chintzy (adj), crummy (adj), punk (adj), sleazy (adj). (additional references) |
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 | Tinny synthesized piano riff. | | Electronic tinny bleep. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Tinny" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tinny" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tinny tit | 37 |
tinny | 27 |
genie tinny | 7 |
dream i tinny | 6 |
tinny toons | 4 |
pussy tinny | 3 |
girl tinny | 3 |
bikini tinny | 2 |
sex tinny | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tinny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me kallaj, i kallajtë. (various references) | |
Arabic | معدن رخيص, صفيحي, رخيص (cheap, crummy, frugal, inexpensive, junk, low-priced, saleable, shoddy, sleazy, two bit), شبيه بالصفيح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), тенекиен (tin), имащ вкус на тенеке, имащ дъх на тенеке, издаващ тенекиен звук. (various references) | |
Chinese | " (SN, tin). (various references) | |
Czech | plechový (metallic), cínový. (various references) | |
French | vide, métallique, grêle, de quatre sous. (various references) | |
German | zinnhaltig (tinnily), schäbig (cheap, dingily, disreputable, dowdy, mangy, mean, measly, moldy, paltry, pokily, poky, poor, raggedly, scabby, seedily, seedy, shabbily, shabby, shoddily, shoddy, sordid, stingy, tackily, tacks, tacky, threadbare), nach blech schmeckend, nach blech, blechern (brassy, hollow, metal), billig (cheap, cheaply, fair, feeble, gimcrack, inexpensive, just, low, low-cost, meet, petty, proper, reasonable, righteous, shabby, tacky). (various references) | |
Greek | κασσιτερώδησ, τενεκεδένιοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתכתי (brassy, brazen, metallic), של ב"יל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bádoghangú, bádogízû, óntartalmú, ónos (stanniferous), ónízű. (various references) | |
Italian | metallico (metallic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innytay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | semelhante a estanho, relativo a estanho, metálico (metal, metallic, wiry), estanífero (stanniferous). (various references) | |
Russian | оловянный (stannic, tin), оловоносный, имеющий привкус жести. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zvučati kao konzerva, od kalaja, kalajni (tin). (various references) | |
Spanish | que suena a lata, cascado (broken, cracked, decrepit, unmelodious, worn out). (various references) | |
Swedish | tennhaltig, tenn- (stannic), metallisk (metallic). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับ"ีบุก (tinnily). (various references) | |
Turkish | teneke gibi ses çıkaran, teneke gibi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | оловоносний, металічний (brassy, metallic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Tinny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atiny, dinny, ginny, Inny, rinny, taney, tanney, Tanni, tanny, tany, tauny, tenny, Tienie, tieny, Timney, tincy, tiney, tingy, tini, tinky, tinn, tinne, tinney, Tinty, tinyl, tinyn, tinyo, twiny, Tyney, tynne, tyrnny, zinny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tinny" (pronounced ti"nē) |
| 3 | -i" n ē | Ginny, Guinea, hinny, mini, Minny, skinny, spinney, Swinney. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: tiny, tyin. | |
-2 letters: inn, nit, tin, yin. | |
-3 letters: in, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-n-t-y" | |
+1 letter: ninety, tyning. | |
+2 letters: annuity, inanity, ninthly, tinnily, untying. | |
+3 letters: antimony, antinomy, anything, caninity, infantry, infinity, innately, insanity, instancy, intently, nystatin, syntonic, tyrannic. | |
+4 letters: anciently, ancientry, anonymity, antimycin, antiphony, antonymic, anythings, aroynting, asininity, astonying, benignity, byzantine, cytokinin, eminently, encysting, indemnity, indignity, ingenuity, instantly, intensely, intensify, intensity, inventory, keynoting, leniently, mountainy, mundanity, mutinying, nonentity, notifying, nystatins, phenytoin, pinnately, rantingly, renitency, syntonies, tyrannies, tyrannise, tyrannize, unanimity, untidying. | |
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