Crossword clues for tinny
tinny
- Thin in tone
- Lacking resonance
- Like a honky-tonk piano
- With a high metallic sound
- Sounding like a toy piano
- Like cheap speakers
- Like a toy piano's sound
- Sounding poor, as a piano
- Sounding like toy pianos
- Of poor sound quality
- Metallic (of sound)
- Like some pianos
- Like an old piano
- Like a flimsy metal
- Like a cheap speaker's sound
- Like a cheap piano
- Having a high metallic sound
- Cheap-seeming
- Thin, as sound
- Weak and thin, as a voice
- Lacking in resonance, e.g
- Thin-toned
- Cheap-sounding
- Like some horns
- Like a flivver
- Metallic in sound
- Like saloon pianos
- Cheap time in New York
- Little note inside Bruce's can
- Beer down under is thin and metallic
- Having a thin, metallic sound
- Thin and metallic
- Thin sounding
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tinny \Tin"ny\, a.
Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin. ``The
tinny strand.''
--Drayton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "of tin," from tin + -y (2). Used figuratively (of sounds, etc.) since 1877.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to or resembling tin. 2 Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal. 3 Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tinny may refer to:
- Tinny, alternative spelling of tinnie, a term with a variety of tin-related meanings
- Tinny (musician) (b. 1982), Ghanaian rapper
- Tinny Durrell, bassist of The Lemming, a Dutch glam rock band
- Tinny, nickname of Katrina Doyle, a character in Republic of Doyle, a Canadian television series
- Tinny, a BotTot from the Kei'zatsu tribe in RollBots, a Canadian animated television series
- Tinny, a one-man band in the Toy Story plot draft; later changed to Buzz Lightyear
- Tinnaya (fem. of "Tinny") or Tinnoye (neut. of "Tinny"), a rural locality (a selo) in Olyokminsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia
Nii Addo Quaynor (born January 19, 1982), better known by his stage name Tinny, is a Ghanaian Rapper. He was born in Osu, Ghana to Mr. Ricky Tetteh Quaynor and Naa Badu Quaynor. He is the last born of their 6 children. At an early age of 8, by singing and rapping at parties and funfairs, he got into the music industry. In 1994 he started performing at Fun-World, an entertainment programme which was organized every Sunday at the National Theatre (Accra). He has released five studio albums since his debut.
Usage examples of "tinny".
Scottish kitchen reverberates with bouzouki music and a plaintive tinny voice singing in Greek.
The radian draws hummed as they funneled the ambient light into the parse tubes and the diapson crystals turned it to energy, a peculiar, tinny sound.
A small shift in the capacitance of his sensorium brought him a tinny chime of talk.
It is expansive and well fenced, her landscape, the quiet acres of her mind, and with a soundtrack: the tapping of the rain, the swipping of her poncho against the branches, the tinny jangle of the carabiners swinging from her backpack.
Marine stepped forward to strike one bell in the first dogwatch - a cracked and tinny sound.
And even then they filtered tinny and absurd through the lid, even as Isaac fell into the stream of warm, faecal water, and staggered along the tunnels following the other survivors.
As they moved away, Julius heard the tinny blaring of horns as the Helvetii began to move on.
His voice, raised to carry through the messroom, sounded tinny and high-pitched.
The sound of punk rock, distant and tinny, came at him from a pair of earphones to his right.
A tinny, tiny sound, so faint that he could hear it only intermittently, leaked out into the room from the earplugs of her pocket hifi.
Jack had liked it at first, but in that depressing place it seemed as tinny and irritating as the three girls who were singing along to it while simultaneously drinking milkshakes and smoking cigarettes.
Kloofman leaned heavily forward, straining himself half out of the tank, causing the servomechanisms within his body to whine in tinny protest.
After some tinny clicking and a sharp squeal that made her shiver with discomfort, a nasal recording, in the heavy accent of some backwoods planet, began to drone.
The garage yard's usual din was replaced by the tinny tone of the radio, the creak of metal and glass and wood differentially expanding in the rising heat, and the low murmur of conversation and laughter.
For a minute only the tinny music from Riki's earbud could be heard, and then like a bubble breaking, the background noise from the garden started again.