shinney

English

Etymology

From shindy, from the likelihood of players banging their shins.

Noun

shinney (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The game of hockey.
    • 1825, The Medico-chirurgical Review:
      Let the boys play at cricket, trap and ball, shinney, fives, skipping, running, coits, marbles, climbing trees, jumping, &c.

See also

References
  • shinney in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Manx

Adjective

shinney

  1. comparative degree of shenn (“old”)

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
shinneyhinney
after "yn", çhinney		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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