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Shinny

noun
1.
A simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck.  Synonym: shinney.
verb
1.
Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.  Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle.






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"Shinny" Quotes from Famous Books



... up the contents of Keren's bureau drawers with a shinny stick, and when I asked what she was doing, she replied without the least embarrassment, that she was trying to teach Keren to be less exact; that Mrs. Trent had asked her ...
— Just Patty • Jean Webster

... for a dozen men and three boys," said she, "and the boys are the worst by a heap sight. Look at that, will you," holding up a darn with a bit of stocking attached. "That hole was made playing shinny." ...
— A Strange Disappearance • Anna Katharine Green

... Priscilla deliberately stirring up the contents of Keren's bureau drawers with a shinny stick, and when I asked what she was doing, she replied without the least embarrassment, that she was trying to teach Keren to be less exact; that Mrs. Trent had ...
— Just Patty • Jean Webster



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