Crossword clues for shinny
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to climb a rope, pole, etc.," 1888, from use of shins and ankles to do so; see shin (n.). Earlier simply shin (1829). Related: Shinnied; shinnying.
also shinney, primitive form of hockey, 1670s, perhaps from Gaelic sinteag "a bound, a leap." OED suggests origin from shin ye "the cry used in the game."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. To climb in an awkward manner. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context Canada English) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball. 2 (context Canada English) street hockey. 3 (context Canada informal English) hockey. Etymology 3
n. moonshine (illegal alcohol)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Shinny (also shinney, pick-up hockey, pond hockey, or "outdoor puck") is an informal type of hockey played on ice. It is also used as another term for street hockey. There are no formal rules or specific positions, and generally, there are no goaltenders. The goal areas at each end may be marked by nets, or simply by objects, such as stones or blocks of snow. Body checking and lifting or "roofing/reefing/raising the puck" (shooting the puck or ball so it rises above the ice) are often forbidden because the players are not wearing protective equipment. Shinny is a game that all levels of hockey enthusiasts can play because it requires no rink, requires no skills except ability to hold a stick and at the very least to try to touch the puck or ball when it goes by. Shinny may be completely non-competitive and recreational - scoring irrelevant - or competitive and scores kept.
In his book Country on Ice, Doug Beardsley claims that most Canadian hockey professional players have played some form of shinny in their youth.
Shinny is an informal type of ice hockey.
Shinny may also refer to:
Usage examples of "shinny".
Determined not to be ignored by him, Amanda shinnied off Fandango and went to press the reins upon him.
Alice shinnied up a rope she had made of basswood bark, and I followed.
Although he displayed a remarkable aptitude for shinnying up and down chimney flues, he was too easily exhausted.
Her legs mirroring her arms, she shinnied smoothly through the water, which still lapped loosely, smacking its lips, eager for more.
Warily eying me as I gestured encouragement, he stood on one foot long enough to insert the other through the garment's leg opening, then hurriedly switched feet and completed the job, shinnying the briefs up his lean thighs and over the hairy knot of his genitalia.
Whether she was loading the rope cart, carrying out slops, or scraping cow dung from her mother-in-law's shoes, Kudra was enveloped in a portable fog of fragrance, entwined with a rope of perfume up which she could shinny and partially, at least, disappear.
Varian equipped herself with Portegin's few tools and shinnied up the vine to the cliff top.
While Lexa merely dematerialized and Laggi soared into the ship under her own power, Bongo and Captain Hamster shinnied up hand-over-hand and paw-over-paw in less time than it would take to please the most autocratic of seventh-grade gym teachers.
She scurried like a lizard along the peak of the wet, slippery roof to the very end, then slid down the steeply pitched side and shinnied down the old pecan tree that had grown too close to the house.
So he darts and shinnies his way through the gothic jaggedness of fire-escapes, drainpipes and TV aerials, while beneath him Broadway crackles in late-night styrofoam, and there is no money involved.
All seemed in readiness for the day’s events: livestock enclosures had been put up, chairs and long tables had been set out for people to eat at, and three tall shafts had been dug into the ground for the shinnying contest.
Roger was shinnying up the pole on the Common, and there goes Gracie up the flagpole in front of the post office in about the same time.
Still, Gracie had not long before been shinnying flagpoles and wrestling Roger Penrose to the ground.
One of the boys had clambered up into the tree and was shinnying out onto the limb in question.
Dick, the oldest of the Shaftoes, had learnt the rudiments of the trade by shinnying up the drain-pipes of whorehouses to steal things from the pockets of vacant clothing.