shinny

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.

Etymology 2

Variation of shinty.

Noun

Wikipedia 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, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p 64:

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

2. (Canada) Street hockey.
3. (Canada, informal) Hockey.

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;....

   • 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.