different between shinny vs shimmery

English

Etymology 1

shin (noun) +? -y

Verb

shinny (third-person singular simple present shinnies, present participle shinnying, simple past and past participle shinnied)

1. To climb in an awkward manner.

Synonyms

• shimmy, shin (British)

Etymology 2

Variation of shinty.

Noun

shinny (uncountable) or shinny hockey

1. (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
   • 2010, Jason Blake, Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study, University of Toronto Press, ?ISBN (cloth-bound), ?ISBN (paperback), chapter two: “The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia”, page 63:

     In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains.

   • 2010, ibidem, page 70:

     Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded.

2. (Canada) Street hockey.
3. (Canada, informal) Hockey.
4. (US, anthropology) A hockey-like game played by American Indians.

Etymology 3

Noun

shinny (uncountable)

1. Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
   • 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, chapter 13

     Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;....

   • 1960, ibid.,

     He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.

References

• “shinny” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

English

Etymology

From shimmer +? -y.

Adjective

shimmery (comparative more shimmery, superlative most shimmery)

1. Shining with a veiled, trembling or intermittent light.

   Synonyms: ashimmer, shimmering

   • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Red Dog” in The Second Jungle Book, London: Macmillan, p. 187,^[1]

     The length of the gorge on both sides was hung as it were with black shimmery velvet curtains, and Mowgli sank as he looked, for those were the clotted millions of the sleeping bees.

   • 2009, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Arrangers of Marriage” in The Thing Around Your Neck, New York: Knopf, p. 180,^[2]

     […] Aunty Ada would base her prostitute judgment on Nia’s lipstick, a shimmery orange, and the eye shadow—similar to the shade of the lipstick—that clung to her heavy lids.

Derived terms

• shimmeriness

Anagrams

• misrhyme