different between shiny vs shimmery

English

Etymology

shine +? -y

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?'n?, IPA^(key): /??a?ni/
• Rhymes: -a?ni

Adjective

shiny (comparative shinier or more shiny, superlative shiniest or most shiny)

1. Reflecting light.
   • Futurama:

     Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!

2. Emitting light.
3. (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
4. (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
   • The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)

     When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
     Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
     Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
     Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.

Derived terms

• shininess

Translations

Noun

shiny (plural shinies)

1. (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
2. (slang) Contraction of disparaging term "shiny arses", originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.[1]

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