different between shin vs thigh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English shyn, shine, from Old English scinu, from Proto-Germanic *skin?. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.

Noun

shin (plural shins)

1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

   Synonym: tibia

2. A fishplate for a railway.

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Related terms

• shinbone

Translations

Verb

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

1. (Britain, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

   Synonym: shinny (US)

2. To strike with the shin.
3. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

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   • 1845, December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser

     The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• sheen, š?n

Noun

shin (plural shins)

1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Further reading

• Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Nish, hins, his'n, hisn, nish, sinh

Esperanto

Pronoun

shin

1. H-system spelling of ?in

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (š?n).

Noun

shin f

1. shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Irish

Pronoun

shin

1. Lenited form of sin.

Japanese

Romanization

shin

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronoun

shin (emphatic shinyn)

1. (personal pronoun) we, us

English

Etymology

From Middle English thigh, thegh, thi?, the?he, þigh, þy?h, from Old English þ?oh, þ?oh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuh? (compare West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó), from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (compare Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian ??? (tuk, “animal fat”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

thigh (plural thighs)

1. The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. [from 8th c.]
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:

     I coniure thee by Rosalines bright eyes, By her High forehead, and her Scarlet lip, By her Fine foote, Straight leg, and Quiuering thigh, And the Demeanes, that there Adiacent lie, That in thy likenesse thou appeare to vs.

   • 1800, Jane Austen, letter, 8 Nov 1800:

     About ten days ago, in cocking a pistol in the guard-room at Marcau, he accidentally shot himself through the Thigh.

   • 1991, Kathy Lette, The Llama Parlour:

     ‘Why not pay up now, kiddo?’ he suggested magnanimously, patting me on the thigh.

   • 2011, The Guardian, 31 Mar 2011:

     The 23-year-old was substituted in the 75th minute of France's goalless friendly draw with Croatia on Tuesday after suffering an injury to his thigh.

2. That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. [from 14th c.]
   • 2009, Fred Thompson, Grillin' with Gas:

     Add the chicken thighs, close the bag, and squish the marinade to coat the chicken.

   • 2011, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 23 Feb 2011:

     The newly discovered dinosaur Brontomerus mcintoshi may have used its huge muscular thighs to kick predators and rivals.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Hight, hight

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /h??/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /hi?/

Noun

thigh

1. Lenited form of tigh.

Middle English

Noun

thigh (plural thighes)

1. Alternative spelling of þigh (“thigh”)