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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine + -er. Compare Old English sċīnere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
shiner (plural shiners)
- One who shines; a luminary.
- One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
- (colloquial) A black eye.
- (colloquial) Raccoon eyes.
- (slang, dated) A bright piece of money, especially a sovereign.
- 1776, Samuel Foote, The Capuchin:
- Has she the shiners, d'ye think?
- 1789, Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, London: H. Ranger, page 30:
- She may be generally found in the fore part of the day at her lodgings above mentioned, where a brace of shiners will ensure you the possession of charms above their value, cent per cent.
- Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
- Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
- A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
- (slang) A moonshiner.
- A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
- Synonym: convex
- 2003, Jon Sharpe, Trailsman #258: Casino Carnage:
- Fargo wasn't sure what difference it made if one gambler passed something to another, unless it was to be used in cheating, a shiner maybe. But nobody at that table would let a shiner pass.
- (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
- 2008, James Laube, “Shiners Are a Secret Part of the Wine Business”, in Wine Spectator[1]:
- Shiners are a big part of the wine business. […] Shiners are finished, bottled wines that don’t have a label or typically any other identifying feature until a vintner purchases them and then places a label on the bottles. […] They’re called shiners because they are unlabeled and have a “shiny” appearance.
Derived terms[edit]
- beautiful shiner (Cyprinella formosa)
- bigeye shiner (Notropis boops)
- bigmouth shiner (Notropis dorsalis)
- blackchin shiner (Notropis heterodon)
- blacknose shiner (Notropis heterolepis)
- blacktail shiner (Cyprinella venusta)
- blueside shiner (Lythrurus ardens)
- bridle shiner (Notropis bifrenatus)
- carmine shiner (Notropis percobromus)
- comely shiner (Notropis amoenus)
- common shiner (Luxilus cornutus)
- eastern shiners (Notropis spp., esp. Notropis dorsalis)
- emerald shiner (Notropis atherinoides)
- finescale shiners (Lythrurus spp.)
- flagfin shiners (Pteronotropis spp.)
- golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas)
- highscale shiners (Luxilus spp.)
- Kiamichi shiner (Notropis ortenburgeri)
- palezone shiner (Notropis albizonatus)
- phantom shiner (Notropis orca)
- redlip shiner (Notropis chiliticus)
- red shiner (Cyprinella lutrensis)
- redside shiners (Richardsonius spp.)
- red-striped shiner (Richardsonius egregius)
- rosefin shiner (Lythrurus ardens)
- sand shiner (Notropis stramineus)
- satinfin shiners (Cyprinella spp.)
- scarlet shiner (Lythrurus fasciolaris)
- sharpnose shiner (Notropis oxyrhynchus)
- shiner perch (Cymatogaster aggregata)
- silverband shiner (Notropis shumardi)
- spottail shiner
- swallowtail shiner (Notropis procne)
- Tennessee shiner (Notropis leuciodus)
Translations[edit]
black eye — see black eye
References[edit]
- “*shiner”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- shiner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- shiner Teleostei on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:shiner Teleostei on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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